Media Credits

Last updated: April 2026 · 120 clinical images + 19 auscultation audio recordings

About this page. NEXO uses medical images from open sources, under licenses such as CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA and public domain, plus auscultation audio produced by our team. This page brings sources, authors and licenses together by modality so the origin of each asset and the right attribution are clear.

Summary by modality

Dermoscopy (9 images)

High-resolution dermoscopic lesions from the MSK-1 collection (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) via ISIC Archive. Includes melanoma, nevi, carcinomas and keratoses.

ISIC Archive: MSK-1 collection

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain) · Count: 9 files

Native resolution ~6600×4400 px, free for commercial use without mandatory attribution.

Electrocardiogram 12 leads (14 tracings)

12-lead ECGs rendered from PhysioNet's PTB-XL dataset, including normal sinus rhythm, atrial fibrillation, inferior and anterior AMI, LBBB, RBBB, 1st degree AVB, left ventricular hypertrophy, and Wolff-Parkinson-White.

PTB-XL v1.0.3 (PhysioNet, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 14 files

Citation: Wagner P et al. PTB-XL, a large publicly available electrocardiography dataset. Scientific Data 7, 154 (2020).

Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (7 images)

Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy including Barrett's esophagus, esophagitis grades A and B-D (Los Angeles), normal pylorus and Z line.

HyperKvasir (Simula Research Laboratory + Bærum Hospital, Norway)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 7 files

Citation: Borgli H et al. HyperKvasir, a comprehensive multi-class image and video dataset for gastrointestinal endoscopy. Scientific Data 7, 283 (2020).

Colonoscopy (8 images)

Colonoscopy with colon polyp, polyp with chromoscopy, ulcerative colitis grades 2 and 3 (Mayo), internal hemorrhoids, normal terminal ileum, rectum and cecum.

HyperKvasir (Simula Research Laboratory + Bærum Hospital, Norway)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 8 files

Blood smear (10 images)

Blood smear with Plasmodium falciparum (NIH/NLM) and normal cells (neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, immature granulocyte, erythroblast, platelets).

NIH/NLM LHNCBC Malaria Screener

License: Public Domain (US Government Work) · Count: 2 files

Citation: Rajaraman S et al. PeerJ 6:e4568 (2018).

PBC Dataset (Hospital Clínic Barcelona, CellaVision DM96)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 8 files

Citation: Acevedo A et al. A dataset of microscopic peripheral blood cell images. Data in Brief 30:105474 (2020).

Physical examination (8 images)

Clinical signs on physical examination: digital clubbing, infectious cellulitis, cyanosis, erythema nodosum, herpes zoster, jaundice, petechiae and vitiligo.

Wikimedia Commons (checked individually per page)

License: Public Domain, CC0, CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 3.0 · Count: 8 files

Authors: Ann McGrath, Sheila J. Toro (Sedooka), Seasurfer and Wikimedia Commons contributors.

Magnetic resonance imaging (5 images)

Brain MRI with ischemic stroke, multiple sclerosis, glioblastoma, brain metastasis and knee MRI with meniscus injury.

Wikimedia Commons

License: Public Domain, CC0, CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 · Count: 5 files

Authors: NIH/NHLBI, Favaretto et al., Steven Keating, Lange123 and Drahreg01.

Colposcopy (5 images)

Colposcopy with application of acetic acid, ectropion and nulliparous cervix. Historical reference series.

Wikimedia Commons

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Count: 5 files

Retinal fundoscopy (7 images)

Fundus photography with normal background, grade 1 to 4 diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema and glaucoma.

IDRiD (Indian Diabetic Retinopathy Image Dataset, IEEE DataPort)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 6 files

Citation: Porwal P et al. Indian Diabetic Retinopathy Image Dataset (IDRiD): A Database for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Research. Data 3(3):25, 2018.

ACRIMA (Kaggle)

License: CC0 · Count: 1 file

Citation: Diaz-Pinto et al., 2019.

Histopathology (11 slides)

Breast (4) and multi-organ H&E slides (lung, liver, kidney, colon, thyroid, bone, totaling 7).

Kaggle (andrewmvd/breast-cancer-cell-segmentation)

License: CC0 · Count: 4 files

Dataset originally from Janowczyk & Madabhushi (Case Western, 2016).

Wikimedia Commons (multi-organ)

License: CC0, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 · Count: 7 files

Authors: Chen CL et al., Mikael Häggström M.D., Nephron, KGH and contributors.

Mammogram (5 images)

Mammograms with normal, benign, malignant and suspicious lesions.

Kaggle (annkristinbalve/mias-mammography-rois)

License: CC0 · Count: 4 files

Kaggle (orvile/dmid-breast-cancer-mammography-dataset-png)

License: CC0 · Count: 1 file

Ultrasound (10 images)

Ultrasound of fetal heart (4 chambers), liver (steatosis, benign and malignant lesions) and breast (normal, benign and malignant).

Kaggle (alimusarizvi/fetal-heart-four-chamber-ultrasound-image)

License: CC0 · Count: 2 files

Kaggle (orvile/annotated-ultrasound-liver-images-dataset)

License: CC0 · Count: 4 files

Kaggle (sabahesaraki/breast-ultrasound-images-dataset)

License: CC0 · Count: 4 files

Chest x-ray (7 images)

Radiographs showing cardiomegaly, pulmonary consolidation, pleural effusion, pulmonary edema, pulmonary nodule, pneumothorax and tuberculosis.

NIH ChestX-ray14 (Wang et al., CVPR 2017)

License: CC0 · Count: 6 files

Shenzhen Hospital CXR (Jaeger et al., IEEE JBHI 2014)

License: CC0 · Count: 1 file

Computed tomography (7 images)

CT with acute appendicitis, ischemic stroke, nephrolithiasis, lung neoplasia, acute PTE, acute subdural hematoma and acute pancreatitis.

Wikimedia Commons (individually verified)

License: CC0 and CC BY-SA 3.0 · Count: 7 files

PET/CT fusion (7 images)

Coronal PET/CT fusions with FDG and PSMA uptake in bronchogenic carcinoma (2), cutaneous melanoma, metastatic melanoma, prostate cancer, whole body NSCLC and soft tissue sarcoma.

ENHANCE.PET (University Hospital Leipzig)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 2 files

TCIA CPTAC-CM (skin melanoma)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 1 file

TCIA PSMA-PET-CT-Lesions (Gatidis et al.)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 1 file

TCIA CMB-MML (metastatic melanoma)

License: CC BY 4.0 · Count: 1 file

TCIA NSCLC-Radiogenomics (Stanford)

License: CC BY 3.0 · Count: 1 file

TCIA Soft-Tissue-Sarcoma (McGill)

License: CC BY 3.0 · Count: 1 file

Heart and lung auscultation (19 audios)

Cardiac auscultation audios (S1, S3, S4, midsystolic click, ASD, VSD, mitral stenosis, aortic and mitral regurgitation) and pulmonary (vesicular murmur, tracheal sound, pleural friction, crackles, stridor, rhonchi, wheezing). Each file has focus, cycle phase and sound frequency metadata.

NEXO's own collection

License: All rights reserved · Count: 19 files

Author recordings with Littmann Classic III stethoscope. 9 cardiac (2 physiological + 7 pathological) and 10 pulmonary (2 physiological + 8 pathological).

About commercial use

All 124 clinical images listed above have been verified as compatible with commercial use under their respective licenses (CC0, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0, public domain). The 19 auscultation audio recordings are part of NEXO's own collection, produced by our team.

Each media file has an XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) sidecar with Dublin Core and IPTC metadata containing title, author, source, license and structured clinical context.

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