tongue image opendata

Question

I am looking for tongue image & photos. To be precise, (1) Tongue with glossitis (2) Tongue with dry mouth (3) Tongue with tongue cancer (4) Tongue with a lot of white coating

Even if I google it, there are limits. I would like to ask if anyone knows where opendata is located. thank you

Answer 1

Wikimedia Commons has hundreds of open images of tongues:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tongues

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Human_tongue

Merit:

• They are open-licensed (most images you found via Google Images are not).

Demerits:

• Most might not match your purpose.
• You will need to label them manually.

Answer 2

Besides Wikimedia Commons (already mentioned in @NicolasRaoul's answer, +1), Open-i offers many medical images, including photographs of tongues. Here's an example of a request you can use (caution, these photographs are of medical nature, so viewing discretion is advised): https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/gridquery?q=tongue&it=xg,ph&m=1&n=100. You can refine the keywords as you wish, as well as the filters (license, type of image, etc.).

The US National Cancer Institute also has a search engine where you can look for images or photographs using specific keywords, you can find many photographs of tongues there, using adequate keywords: https://visualsonline.cancer.gov/

Same thing for the US Public Health Image Library: https://phil.cdc.gov/

You'll probably have to classify these images yourself, and make sure you're respecting their license.