CellImageNet — License and Attribution
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CellImageNet is a derivative dataset built from publicly available 10x Genomics
Xenium datasets. The DAPI image crops in this dataset are transformations
(cropping / re-framing) of imaging data published by 10x Genomics, Inc.

Source data license
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The underlying 10x Genomics Xenium datasets are distributed by 10x Genomics
under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0):

    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Because CellImageNet is a derivative work of CC BY 4.0 material, the image crops
are likewise made available under CC BY 4.0. The cell-type annotations, derived
metadata, and dataset packaging contributed by the CellImageNet / MorphPT
authors are also released under CC BY 4.0.

You are free to share and adapt this material for any purpose, including
commercially, provided that you:

  1. give appropriate credit to 10x Genomics (the source of the imaging data)
     and to the CellImageNet authors,
  2. provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 license, and
  3. indicate that changes were made (the images were cropped / re-framed and
     re-annotated; they are not the original 10x Genomics files).

Required attribution
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- Imaging data: 10x Genomics, Inc. — Xenium In Situ datasets,
  https://www.10xgenomics.com/datasets  (each source sample is listed, with its
  individual dataset page and license, in the dataset card / attribution table).
- Dataset: CellImageNet — Cao et al., "A visual foundation model for cell
  classification" (2026).

The per-sample list of source 10x Genomics datasets and their individual
license confirmations is provided in the dataset card (README.md) under
"Attribution & source datasets".

No warranty
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This dataset is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. It is intended
for research use only and is not a medical device.