Library Guides: Images in the Health Sciences: A Guide: Finding Images

Free Biomedical and Healthcare Images

Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Collection of stereoscopic anatomy images from the Lane Library at Stanford. Use and copyright discussed on home page of Bassett collection.
CDC - Public Health Image Library
Indexes photographs, illustrations and multimedia files held by the CDC. Most of the images in the collection are in the public domain. From the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Multimedia pages for many of the known species on Earth, as well as resources to expedite the classification of the millions of species yet to be discovered.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
Over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.
HON Media Gallery
6800+ medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes. From Health on the Net, a non-governmental organization whose central purpose is to set standards for the presentation of health information on the web.
Images from the History of Medicine
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's historical database contains over 70,000 images documenting social and historical aspects of medicine from the Middle Ages to the present. The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media.
MedlinePlus
Consumer health database produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. It is a useful starting place for health sciences students when learning about a new topic. It is also a great source for patient education materials. Associated with the information are many images, videos, etc.
MedPix®, Free Online Medical Image Database
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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The content material is organized by disease location (organ system), pathology category, patient profiles, and by image classification and caption. Currently, the MedPix® website can be used to browse the cases.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Image Gallery
The NIH Image Gallery 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.
NCI Visuals Online: National Cancer Institute
This collection from the National Cancer Institute contains general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images. All images are in the public domain and may be used, linked, or reproduced without permission.
NIH 3D print exchange
Scientifically accurate or medically applicable 3D print models in formats readily compatible with 3D printers, plus a unique set of tools to create and share 3D-printable models related to biomedical science.
Open-i
Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine. From the National Library of Medicine.
PubMed Central
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
TRIP Database - Turning Research into Practice
Medical meta-search engine for EBM sites, including online journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM. Search results may be filtered.
US Government Medical Stock Image & Footage
Images, Photographs, Videos, Animations, and Film Footage - resources for medical stock shots, images, photographs, slides, videos, animations, and film footage. Most US government images and graphics are in the public domain. Read the disclaimers on each site before use.
WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory
2000+ images with text illustrating gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. Over 2000 examination items and 20+ tutorials in specific subject areas. Recommended by Office of Medical Education
Wellcome Images
Over 40,000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences, including disease, surgery, general healthcare, sciences from genetics to neuroscience including the full range of imaging techniques.
Whole Brain Atlas
Collection of MRI, MRA, PET images of normal and diseased brains from Harvard.

Biomedical Images from TU databases

AccessMedicine, Video & Audio
All video and audio on AccessMedicine, organized for easy browsing.

ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
Full text books & journals from Elsevier publishing, Procedures Consult (medical procedure videos), First Consult (evidence-based clinical decision-making), MEDLINE search. Create username and password to download full text & install apps.
Gideon This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to more than 400 of the Library's premier journal subscriptions primarily in science, technical, and medical fields.
VisualDX This link opens in a new window
Medical images of dermatology
Mobile install: Launch VisualDx at your institution and click “Get our free app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device" or "Get Mobile" (top right of page). Then create a personal username and password, download app, launch the VisualDx app from your device and sign in.

MedOne Radiology
Remote Access - Create a personal username/password account to access MedOne Radiology via mobile devices. “Sign up for access from home.” Use tulane.edu email account as your personal name.
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Users with a personal account may create playlists and custom content sets. The MedOne App is available
(free of charge) in the App store for iOS and Android devices.

General Images

Creative Commons Search
Find content you can share, use and remix
Google Images
Flickr
Compfight
Image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. Limit results to "creative commons" for images not subject to copyright

Radiology Images

Radiopaedia.org, the online collaborative radiology resource. A free educational radiology resource with one of the web's largest collections of radiology cases and reference articles.
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Case quizzes help improve healthcare education by letting medical professionals world-wide undertake self-directed learning, supplementing their local training. Case titles and diagnoses are hidden in quizzes so you may test your understanding before verifying it against case findings. Each case below lets you start a new quiz from that case, which will then continue onto other similar cases.
LearningRadiology.com
lectures, handouts, images, Cases of the Week, quizzes, flashcards of differential diagnoses and more
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Educational website aimed at medical students and radiology residents-in-training, containing lectures, handouts, images, Cases of the Week, archives of cases, quizzes, flashcards of differential diagnoses and “most commons” lists, primarily in the areas of chest, GI, GU cardiac, bone and neuroradiology.
All material on the site, except for the Faculty lectures by other members of the staff at Einstein, was produced by Dr. Herring. Started in June of 2002, the site was originally intended to replace the handout notes that accompanied lectures for the residents and medical students at Albert Einstein Medical Center. It now contains over 20,000 pages of content.