The public cancer radiology imaging collections of The Cancer Imaging Archive

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s repository for cancer imaging and related information. TCIA contains 30.9 million radiology images representing data collected from approximately 37,568 subjects. This data is organized into collections by tumor-type with many...

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Published inScientific data Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 170124
Main Authors Prior, Fred, Smith, Kirk, Sharma, Ashish, Kirby, Justin, Tarbox, Lawrence, Clark, Ken, Bennett, William, Nolan, Tracy, Freymann, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.09.2017
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects
631/114/129
692/308/53/2421
692/699/67/2321
692/700/1421/1770
Archives & records
Cancer
Collections
Data collection
Data Descriptor
Databases, Factual
Digital Object Identifier
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Interfaces
multidisciplinary
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Radiography
Science
United States
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Summary:The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s repository for cancer imaging and related information. TCIA contains 30.9 million radiology images representing data collected from approximately 37,568 subjects. This data is organized into collections by tumor-type with many collections also including analytic results or clinical data. TCIA staff carefully de-identify and curate all incoming collections prior to making the information available via web browser or programmatic interfaces. Each published collection within TCIA is assigned a Digital Object Identifier that references the collection. Additionally, researchers who use TCIA data may publish the subset of information used in their analysis by requesting a TCIA generated Digital Object Identifier. This data descriptor is a review of a selected subset of existing publicly available TCIA collections. It outlines the curation and publication methods employed by TCIA and makes available 15 collections of cancer imaging data. Design Type(s) data integration objective • organism part comparison design Measurement Type(s) imaging assay Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) Clinical Diagnosis Sample Characteristic(s) Homo sapiens • craniocervical region • colon • lung • thoracic segment of trunk • prostate gland • glioblastoma cell • breast Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)
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F.P. is the PI of the Cancer Imaging Archive project and lead contributor to this manuscript. K.S. created the shared lists that support access to the referenced collections and contributed to the manuscript. A.S. created the DOIs for the referenced collections and contributed to the manuscript. J.K., K.C., T.N., W.B., and L.T. are key contributors to the ongoing operation of TCIA and contributed to the manuscript. J.F. is the project manager for the National Cancer Institute, authored many of the collection descriptions and contributed to the manuscript.
ISSN:2052-4463
2052-4463
DOI:10.1038/sdata.2017.124