Library Guides: Find it! How to Find Multimedia Resources: Online Imagebanks

Just because an image or video is available online, does not mean that you may copy or utilize the image without permission. Images may be reproduced for educational purposes, but double-check the copyright or terms of use statement from the author. Even when images are freely available for re-use, proper attribution conventions still apply. Please cite your resources appropriately in your research and presentations.

ASH (American Society of Hematology) Image Bank "ASH Image Bank is an extensive online library of screen-sized blood disease images and cases for educational use" Nonmembers will need to create an account. Currently, the ASH Image Bank is available to nonmembers at no cost. To create an account, click here.
Chest x-rays
108,948 frontal-view X-ray images of 32,717 unique patients, including many with advanced lung disease. Images from the The NIH Clinical Center.
CT images
"The National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center has made a large-scale dataset of CT images publicly available to help the scientific community improve detection accuracy of lesions. While most publicly available medical image datasets have less than a thousand lesions, this dataset, named DeepLesion, has over 32,000 annotated lesions identified on CT images." Read more about the Dataset in the news release
Figure 1 (app)
"Figure 1 is intended for healthcare professionals to share and discuss the cases they encounter in their practice." The app consists of clinical images and photos of real patients.
FREEIMAGES
"You will need to create a personal account, but downloading the images is free as long as you stick to the rules in the Image license Agreement. In some cases you may need to notify the artists about using the images and you should give credit to artist for use of their work.
ID Images (eMicrobes: A Digital Library for Learning Infectious Diseases) The goal of this site is to present images of interesting and instructive Infectious Disease cases to healthcare trainees and professionals for educational purposes. The site is a result of a collaboration among the Infectious Diseases Divisions of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. Cases and images within ID images are described using terms from the NLM's Medical Subject Headings. You will need to register for a free account to use the site. Please see the Permissions and Copyright section to learn how to ethically use material from this resource.
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) (IHM) provides online access to over 70,000 digitized images of the approximate 100,000 items from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Prints and Photographs collection. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.
Laboratory Identification of Parasitic Diseases of Public Health Concern "Welcome to DPDx, a Web site developed and maintained by CDC's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM). DPDx uses the Internet to strengthen diagnosis of parasitic diseases, both in the United States and abroad. This interactive and rapid exchange of information, allied with already available diagnostic reference resources, will enhance our capacity to address the global problem of parasitic diseases."
MedPix®
A free online Medical Image Database with over 53,000 indexed and curated images, from over 13,000 patients. Created by The National Library of Medicine.The content material is organized by disease location (organ system), pathology category, patient profiles, and by image classification and caption.
National Cancer Institute: Visuals Online
"The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Visuals Online provides a range of photographs and illustrations that may help communicators of medical and public health convey meaning, describe concepts, and tell stories. The collection spans everything from biomedical, science, and patient-care related illustrations and images to portraits of present and past directors and the staff of the National Cancer Institute. Visuals Online currently provides public access to 3,557 images."
NIH Photo Galleries
"The NIH Image Bank contains images from the collections of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health. Contents include general biomedical and science-related images, clinicians, computers, patient care-related images, microscopy images, and various exterior images." See the NIH Copyright Notification page to learn about ethical use of these images.
Open-I (Open Access Biomedical Images)
Access images in the National Library of Medicine's PMC (formerly PubMed Central) – an open archive of free full-text biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Pathology Education Informational Resource (PEIR) Digital Library,
Radiology, Pathology, and other teaching images ; a multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education.
Physiopedia
"Physiopedia is a UK based charity that brings value to the global Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy profession with it’s free and open knowledge resource. This community edited Wikipedia style resource is now the largest Physiotherapy website in the world."
Pixabay
Pixabay hosts "copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes."
Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
Most of the images in the collection are in the public domain and are thus free of any copyright restrictions. If you look directly beneath the image you will see a fair use statement that tells you if the image is public domain or copyright protected. Permission is not required for public domain images, but we do ask that you credit the original institution and contributor, when known, whenever the image is used in any publicly distributed media. If the image is copyright protected, you will have to contact the content provider to obtain usage permission. PHIL does not have the authority to grant usage for any copyrighted images in the library.
Radiopaedia.org
"Radiopaedia.org is a rapidly growing open-edit radiology resource primarily complied by radiologists and radiology residents/registrars and fellows from across the globe. The site aims to create the best radiology reference available, and to make it available for free, forever and for all."
Unsplash
Unsplash provides free images with no copyright restrictions. Images can be freely downloaded and used for commercial and non-commercial purposes.