{"id":13,"date":"2014-06-04T23:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-dev.cancerimagingarchive.net\/tcia\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:24:59","slug":"about-the-cancer-imaging-archive-tcia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stage.cancerimagingarchive.net\/about-the-cancer-imaging-archive-tcia\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”40″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is a service which de-identifies and hosts a large publicly available archive of medical images of cancer.\u00a0 TCIA is funded by the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), a part of the United States\u00a0 National Cancer Institute (NCI), and is managed by the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR).<\/p>\n

The imaging data are organized as \u201ccollections\u201d defined by a common disease (e.g. lung cancer), image modality or type (MRI, CT, digital histopathology, etc) or research focus. DICOM is the primary file format used by TCIA for radiology imaging. \u00a0 An emphasis is made to provide supporting data related to the images such as patient outcomes, treatment details, genomics and expert analyses.<\/p>\n

New Collection proposals <\/a>\u00a0are reviewed by the TCIA Advisory Group. If approved, the Data Collection Center (DCC) provides hands-on support to image providers to de-identify and curate their data. After the data has been processed it is made available in four different ways for users to access:<\/p>\n

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  1. Collection summary pages can be accessed from the home page<\/a> which provide a detailed explanation of each data set as well as direct download links to quickly obtain all images and supporting data for a given Collection.<\/li>\n
  2. The\u00a0Radiology<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Histopathology<\/a> data portals provide\u00a0more advanced searching, browsing and filtering capabilities to select image subsets or download images from multiple Collections which meet search criteria.<\/li>\n
  3. The Programmatic Interface (REST API)<\/a> allows software developers to build access to TCIA data into their scripts and applications.<\/li>\n
  4. TCIA also encourages the creation of Data Analysis Centers (DACs)<\/a> which provide additional capabilities for visualizing or analyzing TCIA data by connecting to our TCIA Programmatic Interface (REST API) or by mirroring our Collections.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To enhance the value of TCIA’s collections we also encourage the research community to publish their analysis results<\/a>. Potential analyses could include tumor segmentations, radiomics features, derived\/reprocessed images, and radiologist assessments. \u00a0You can view the analyses published by other TCIA users in our Analysis Results<\/a> directory.<\/p>\n

    Use the tabs below for more information:<\/p>\n[toggle title=”Are there any publications that describe TCIA in more detail?”]\nYes, they can be found on this page<\/a>.
    \n[\/toggle]\n[toggle title=”What value would it be to me?”]\nA huge amount of clinical and research images are collected each year. TCIA organizes and catalogs the images so that they may be used by the research community for a variety of purposes.<\/p>\n