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The Cancer Imaging Archive

Abbreviation:TCIA

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General Information

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is a service which de-identifies and hosts medical images of cancer for public download. The data are organized as “collections”; typically patients’ imaging related 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. Supporting data related to the images such as patient outcomes, treatment details, genomics and expert analyses are also provided when available.

Homepage http://cancerimagingarchive.net/

Countries that developed this resource United States

Taxonomic range

Homo sapiens

Mus musculus

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

User-defined Tags

Digital pathology

In the following recommendations:

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: TCIA; The Cancer Imaging Archive; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.jrfd8y; Last edited: June 22, 2021, 11:58 a.m.; Last accessed: Jul 27 2021 4:26 a.m.

Publication for citation The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): maintaining and operating a public information repository. Clark K,Vendt B,Smith K,Freymann J,Kirby J,Koppel P,Moore S,Phillips S,Maffitt D,Pringle M,Tarbox L,Prior F; J Digit Imaging ; 2013; 10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7;

This record is maintained by kirbyju

Record updated: May 21, 2021, 10:24 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.jrfd8y' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 12:35, 03 Mar 2021 (approved):

	'organizations' has been modified:
		Before:
			Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA|http://imaging.cancer.gov/|Funds
			Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA|https://frederick.cancer.gov/|Maintains
			University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|http://www.uams.edu|Maintains
			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|https://www.nih.gov/|Funds
		After:
			Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA|http://imaging.cancer.gov/|Funds
			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|https://www.nih.gov/|Funds
			University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|http://www.uams.edu|Maintains
		Added:
		Removed:
			Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA|https://frederick.cancer.gov/|Maintains

	'supportLinks' has been modified:
		Before:
			FAQ|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4555089
			blog|https://www.facebook.com/The.Cancer.Imaging.Archive
			contact form|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tcia-announcements
			forum|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
			online documentation|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/rYAY
			online documentation|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			twitter|@TCIA_News
		After:
			FAQ|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4555089
			blog|https://www.facebook.com/The.Cancer.Imaging.Archive
			contact form|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tcia-announcements
			forum|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
			online documentation|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/rYAY
			online documentation|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			online documentation|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/about-the-cancer-imaging-archive-tcia/
			twitter|@TCIA_News
			wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cancer_Imaging_Archive_%28TCIA%29
		Added:
			contact form|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			online documentation|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			online documentation|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/about-the-cancer-imaging-archive-tcia/
			wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cancer_Imaging_Archive_%28TCIA%29
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			contact form|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			online documentation|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/

	'licences' has been modified:
		Before:
			Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)|https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/|Data
		After:
			Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)|https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/|Data
			TCIA Data Usage Policy|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/access-data|Data
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			TCIA Data Usage Policy|https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/access-data|Data
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	'dataProcesses' has been modified:
		Before:
			manual curation, data curation, https://www.innatedb.com/doc/InnateDB_2011_curation_guide.pdf
			submit analyses, data curation, http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
			submit primary data, data curation, http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/
			radiology image search, data access, https://nbia.cancerimagingarchive.net
			browse analysis results, data access, https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/sgH1
		After:
			Histopathology Data Portal, data access, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/histopathology-imaging-on-tcia/
			Submit analyses, data curation, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
			Submit primary data, data curation, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/
			Radiology Data Portal, data access, https://nbia.cancerimagingarchive.net/nbia-search/
			Browse Analysis Results, data access, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/tcia-analysis-results/
			Browse All Collections, data access, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collections/
		Added:
			Histopathology Data Portal, data access, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/histopathology-imaging-on-tcia/
			Submit analyses, data curation, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
			Submit primary data, data curation, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/
			Radiology Data Portal, data access, https://nbia.cancerimagingarchive.net/nbia-search/
			Browse Analysis Results, data access, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/tcia-analysis-results/
			Browse All Collections, data access, https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collections/
		Removed:
			manual curation, data curation, https://www.innatedb.com/doc/InnateDB_2011_curation_guide.pdf
			submit analyses, data curation, http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
			submit primary data, data curation, http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/
			radiology image search, data access, https://nbia.cancerimagingarchive.net
			browse analysis results, data access, https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/sgH1

	'grants' has been modified:
		Before:
			R00LM009889
			U01CA148131
			U01CA154602
		After:
			HHSN261200800001C/RC/CCR NIH HHS/United States 
			HHSN261200800001E/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States 
			HHSN261200800001E/PHS HHS/United States 
			R00LM009889
			U01CA148131
			U01CA154602
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			HHSN261200800001C/RC/CCR NIH HHS/United States 
			HHSN261200800001E/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States 
			HHSN261200800001E/PHS HHS/United States 
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	'tools' has been modified:
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			data analysis centers/tools||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/x49XAQ
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			TCIA Data Analysis Centers (DACs)||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=22515655
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			TCIA Data Analysis Centers (DACs)||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=22515655
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			data analysis centers/tools||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/x49XAQ

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.jrfd8y' by 'kirbyju' at 18:53, 31 Dec 2019 (approved):

	'organizations' has been modified:
		Before:
			Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA|http://imaging.cancer.gov/|Funds
			National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA|https://evs.nci.nih.gov/|Funds
			Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA|https://frederick.cancer.gov/|Maintains
			University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|http://www.uams.edu|Maintains
			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|http://www.nih.gov|Funds
		After:
			Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA|http://imaging.cancer.gov/|Funds
			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|http://www.nih.gov|Funds
			Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA|https://frederick.cancer.gov/|Maintains
			University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|http://www.uams.edu|Maintains
		Added:
		Removed:
			National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA|https://evs.nci.nih.gov/|Funds

	'accessPoints' has been modified:
		Before:
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCIA+Programmatic+Interface+%28REST+API%29+Usage+Guide|REST documentation
		After:
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/NIIiAQ|REST documentation
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			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/NIIiAQ|REST documentation
		Removed:
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCIA+Programmatic+Interface+%28REST+API%29+Usage+Guide|REST documentation

	'supportLinks' has been modified:
		Before:
			FAQ|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4555089
			blog|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
			blog|https://www.facebook.com/The.Cancer.Imaging.Archive
			contact form|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tcia-announcements
			online documentation|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/rYAY
			online documentation|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			twitter|@TCIA_News
		After:
			FAQ|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4555089
			blog|https://www.facebook.com/The.Cancer.Imaging.Archive
			contact form|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tcia-announcements
			forum|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
			online documentation|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/rYAY
			online documentation|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			twitter|@TCIA_News
		Added:
			forum|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
		Removed:
			blog|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile

	'description' has been modified:
		Before: The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is a large archive of medical images of cancer accessible for public download. All images are stored in DICOM file format. The images are organized as "Collections", typically patients related by a common disease (e.g. lung cancer), image modality (MRI, CT, etc) or research focus.
		After: The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is a service which de-identifies and hosts medical images of cancer for public download. The data are organized as ?collections?; typically patients? imaging related 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. Supporting data related to the images such as patient outcomes, treatment details, genomics and expert analyses are also provided when available.

	'onto_disciplines' has been modified:
		Before:
			Biomedical Science
			Oncology
			Radiology
		After:
			Artificial Intelligence
			Biomedical Science
			Digital Image Processing
			Oncology
			Radiology
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			Artificial Intelligence
			Digital Image Processing
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	'onto_domains' has been modified:
		Before:
			cancer
			image
			imaging technique
		After:
			Machine Learning
			cancer
			histological assay
			image
			imaging technique
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			Machine Learning
			histological assay
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	'contactEmail' has been modified:
		Before: CancerImagingArchive@mail.nih.gov
		After: help@cancerimagingarchive.net

	'taxonomies' has been modified:
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			Homo sapiens
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			Homo sapiens
			Mus musculus
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			Mus musculus
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	'contactORCID' has been modified:
		Before: 
		After: 0000-0003-3487-8922

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.jrfd8y' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 09:33, 27 Jul 2018 (approved):

	'related_databases' has been modified:
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		After:
			The Cancer Genome Atlas
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			The Cancer Genome Atlas
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	'supportLinks' has been modified:
		Before:
			help|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			online documentation|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/rYAY
			twitter|@TCIA_News
		After:
			FAQ|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4555089
			blog|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
			blog|https://www.facebook.com/The.Cancer.Imaging.Archive
			contact form|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tcia-announcements
			online documentation|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/rYAY
			online documentation|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
			twitter|@TCIA_News
		Added:
			FAQ|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4555089
			blog|https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4371904/profile
			blog|https://www.facebook.com/The.Cancer.Imaging.Archive
			contact form|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/contact-form/
			forum|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tcia-announcements
			online documentation|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/
		Removed:
			help|http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/support/

	'accessPoints' has been modified:
		Before:
			REST|https://services.cancerimagingarchive.net/services/TCIA/TCIA/query|REST Base URL
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/uQxp|REST documentation
		After:
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCIA+Programmatic+Interface+%28REST+API%29+Usage+Guide|REST documentation
		Added:
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCIA+Programmatic+Interface+%28REST+API%29+Usage+Guide|REST documentation
		Removed:
			REST|https://services.cancerimagingarchive.net/services/TCIA/TCIA/query|REST Base URL
			REST|https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/uQxp|REST documentation

	'tools' has been modified:
		Before:
			submit analyses||http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
			data analysis centers/tools||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/x49XAQ
			browse analysis results||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/sgH1
			radiology image search||https://public.cancerimagingarchive.net/ncia
			submit primary data||http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/
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			data analysis centers/tools||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/x49XAQ
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			submit analyses||http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
			browse analysis results||https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/sgH1
			radiology image search||https://public.cancerimagingarchive.net/ncia
			submit primary data||http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/

	'dataProcesses' has been modified:
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			manual curation
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			manual curation
			submit analyses
			submit primary data
			radiology image search
			browse analysis results
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			submit analyses
			submit primary data
			radiology image search
			browse analysis results
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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.jrfd8y' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 09:03, 27 Jul 2018 (approved):

	'organizations' has been modified:
		Before:
			Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA|http://imaging.cancer.gov/|Funds
			Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA|https://frederick.cancer.gov/|Maintains
			National Institute of Health|https://www.nih.gov/|Funds
			University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|http://www.uams.edu|Maintains
		After:
			Cancer Imaging Program (CIP), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA|http://imaging.cancer.gov/|Funds
			National Institute of Health|https://www.nih.gov/|Funds
			Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA|https://frederick.cancer.gov/|Maintains
			University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|http://www.uams.edu|Maintains
			US National Institutes of Health (NIH)|https://www.nih.gov/|Funds
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			US National Institutes of Health (NIH)|https://www.nih.gov/|Funds
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	'grants' has been modified:
		Before:
		After:
			R00LM009889
			U01CA148131
			U01CA154602
		Added:
			R00LM009889
			U01CA148131
			U01CA154602
		Removed:

	'miriam_id' has been modified:
		Before: None
		After: 

	'publications' has been modified:
		Before:
			The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): maintaining and operating a public information repository.|Clark K,Vendt B,Smith K,Freymann J,Kirby J,Koppel P,Moore S,Phillips S,Maffitt D,Pringle M,Tarbox L,Prior F|J Digit Imaging|2013
		After:
			The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): maintaining and operating a public information repository.|Clark K,Vendt B,Smith K,Freymann J,Kirby J,Koppel P,Moore S,Phillips S,Maffitt D,Pringle M,Tarbox L,Prior F|J Digit Imaging|2013
			Quantitative Imaging Network: Data Sharing and Competitive AlgorithmValidation Leveraging The Cancer Imaging Archive.|Kalpathy-Cramer J,Freymann JB,Kirby JS,Kinahan PE,Prior FW|Transl Oncol|2014
			Iterative probabilistic voxel labeling: automated segmentation for analysis of The Cancer Imaging Archive glioblastoma images.|Steed TC,Treiber JM,Patel KS,Taich Z,White NS,Treiber ML,Farid N,Carter BS,Dale AM,Chen CC|AJNR Am J Neuroradiol|2014
			The public cancer radiology imaging collections of The Cancer Imaging Archive.|Prior F,Smith K,Sharma A,Kirby J,Tarbox L,Clark K,Bennett W,Nolan T,Freymann J|Sci Data|2017
			TCIApathfinder: an R client for The Cancer Imaging Archive REST API.|Russell P,Fountain K,Wolverton D,Ghosh D|Cancer Res|2018
			Molecular physiology of contrast enhancement in glioblastomas: An analysis of The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA).|Treiber JM,Steed TC,Brandel MG,Patel KS,Dale AM,Carter BS,Chen CC|J Clin Neurosci|2018
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			Quantitative Imaging Network: Data Sharing and Competitive AlgorithmValidation Leveraging The Cancer Imaging Archive.|Kalpathy-Cramer J,Freymann JB,Kirby JS,Kinahan PE,Prior FW|Transl Oncol|2014
			Iterative probabilistic voxel labeling: automated segmentation for analysis of The Cancer Imaging Archive glioblastoma images.|Steed TC,Treiber JM,Patel KS,Taich Z,White NS,Treiber ML,Farid N,Carter BS,Dale AM,Chen CC|AJNR Am J Neuroradiol|2014
			The public cancer radiology imaging collections of The Cancer Imaging Archive.|Prior F,Smith K,Sharma A,Kirby J,Tarbox L,Clark K,Bennett W,Nolan T,Freymann J|Sci Data|2017
			TCIApathfinder: an R client for The Cancer Imaging Archive REST API.|Russell P,Fountain K,Wolverton D,Ghosh D|Cancer Res|2018
			Molecular physiology of contrast enhancement in glioblastomas: An analysis of The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA).|Treiber JM,Steed TC,Brandel MG,Patel KS,Dale AM,Carter BS,Chen CC|J Clin Neurosci|2018
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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.jrfd8y' by 'kirbyju' at 17:28, 03 Nov 2017 (approved):

	'contactName' has been modified:
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In Collections

NIH-supported data repositories

Data Citation Implementation

Open Science Prize

Support

General

FAQ	FAQ
blog	Facebook
contact form	Contact Form
forum	TCIA Announcements Google Group
forum	LinkedIn Group
online documentation	Wiki Documentation
online documentation	Support Documentation
online documentation	About TCIA
twitter	@TCIA_News
wikipedia	TCIA Wikipedia Entry

Additional Information

Contact

Justin Kirby ORCID

Tools

TCIA Data Analysis Centers (DACs)

https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=225 ...

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Data Curation

Submit analyses	https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/analysis-results/
Submit primary data	https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/

Data Access

Histopathology Data Portal	https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/histopathology-imaging-on-tcia/
Radiology Data Portal	https://nbia.cancerimagingarchive.net/nbia-search/
Browse Analysis Results	https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/tcia-analysis-results/
Browse All Collections	https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collections/

REST Web Services

REST documentation

https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/x/NIIiAQ

Publications

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): maintaining and operating a public information repository.

Clark K,Vendt B,Smith K,Freymann J,Kirby J,Koppel P,Moore S,Phillips S,Maffitt D,Pringle M,Tarbox L,Prior F
J Digit Imaging 2013