Image Collections for Sciences and Social Sciences

ACCESS MEDICINE Go to Advance Search and above search bar is the IMAGE option. Select.

UPTODATE In the drop-down menu to the right of the search bar, select "Graphics," and search by keyword.

Gerstein Science Information Centre MEDICAL IMAGES : STARTING POINTS

University of California, Catalogue of Clinical Images

University of Nebraska Medical Research Guide

• 3D Medical Animation Library

  Health Animations of various health conditions like allergies, diabetes, depression and more from HealthCentral.com.

   
• ARRS Goldminer

  Over 200,000 radiological images published in selected, peer-reviewed journals. You can search by anatomy, imaging technique, patient age and gender.
• Atlas of Histology

  Contains over 1000 labeled histological features are labled and have accompanying functional descriptions. All of this information is accessible though an alphabetical index and a search engine.

   

  CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
• PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to Center for Disease Control and Prevention's pictures. Use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. Content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.

   

  Cell Library - CRBS, Centre for Research in Biological Systems 10,000 unique datasets and 20 TB of data.
• Clinical Growth Charts (CDC)
• Dermatlas

  A searchable database of over 12,000 high-quality dermatology images. The database is sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.
• DermNet

  Contains over 23,000 images of skin disease.
• ECG Library

  A collection of realistic looking recordings which will help improve your ECG skills.
• Flickr: Specimens (Pathology)
• Google Images

  Use the Advanced Image Search to limit your results to images labeled for reuse.
• Hardin MD: Medical & Disease Pictures
• Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)

  The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
• HealthLibrary.ca
• The National Medical Digital Repository has been developed for medical teaching and learning in Canada and will be available to all Canadian medical schools through the A.C.M.C. with the hope of creating pan-Canadian collaboration and cooperation. The National Medical Digital Repository will permit Canadian medical teachers to contribute, collect, store, use and share their teaching material, thus ultimately benefiting all teachers and learners.
  Health on the Net (HONmedia)
• HONmedia is an unique repository of over 6'800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON and new image links are constantly being added from the world-wide Web.
• Images from the Clendening Library
• This exhibit displays hundreds of images from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800. They are organized by theme: diagnostics, human body, imaging, instruments, physician-patient culture, portraits, public health, reproduction, reproduction instruments, therapeutics. The Clendening Library encourages educational use of the images at no charge.

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• Images from the History of Medicine

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• John Martin Rare Book Room Images
• These unique sets of several hundred images from the 5,000 volume John Martin Rare Book Room have been selected from some of the more striking works in the collection and include illustrations relating to anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, and therapeutics.
• Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI)

  LONI, from UCLA, seeks to improve understanding of the brain in health and disease. The laboratory is dedicated to the development of scientific approaches for the comprehensive mapping of the brain structure and function.
• Lane Medical Library Bio-Image Search

  Bio-image Search enables discovery of biomedical images from aggregated sources that you can use, i.e., images in the Public Domain or with Creative Commons licenses.
• Muscle Atlas

  From the University of Washington.
• National Cancer Institute - Visuals Online

  Visual images provided by the National Cancer Institute -- extensive browsing capabilities.
• Neurological Eye Simulator

  From UC Davis. It simulates interactive eye motion and allows various neurological pathologies to be simulated. Requires Macromedia Shockwave plug-in.
• NeuroLogic Exam

  Uses video demonstrations and narrative descriptions in an online tutorial that presents the anatomical foundations of the neurologic exam and provides examples of both normal and abnormal conditions as exhibited by patients.
• NIH Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine

  Access to approximately 70,000 digital images from the History of Medicine Division including portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
• OBGYN.net Image Library

  This site is devoted to providing access to women's health related images. Because of the graphic nature of the material some individuals may prefer not to view these images which are provided for educational purposes only.
• Open-i Biomedical Image Search Selection

  Produced by the National History of Medicine.
• Robert Bendheim Digital Atlas of Ophthalmology

  The Digital Atlas of Ophthalmology is a database of images drawn from the vast clinical experience of The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary specialists and their colleagues around the world. It's intended to serve as a visual reference and educational supplement for ophthalmologists, general physicians, and medical students.
• SpringerImages

  A continually-updated collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD.
• Trauma.org: Trauma Image Database
• "The Trauma Image Database is intended as a repository of quality, useful trauma images on the internet. It is appropriately classified and searchable, with images freely available for educational use. Images are directed towards healthcare professionals and can be disturbing."
• TRIP Database - Medical Images
• US National Library of Medicine
• Visuals Online (National Cancer Institute)

  Contains images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Education and Office of Media Relations, National Cancer Institute. Except where noted on the image details page, Visuals Online images are in the public domain and may be used, linked, or reproduced without permission. If you use an image, you should credit the listed source and/or author.
   
• WebPath: Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education

  A web resource with images, text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and exam items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.
• Wellcome Images

  A unique collection, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science, including Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves, illuminated Persian books and more.
• Wikimedia Commons