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The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)

NBIA

NIAMS

XNAT Central

Image Data Archive

Function BIRN Data Repository

NIRL Imaging Database

Give A Scan

Optical Society of America (OSA)

Insight Journal

National Database for Autism Research (NDAR)

Pediatric MRI Data RepositoryNITRCFITBIR

Supporting Institution(s)

Cancer Imaging Program

Cancer Imaging Program, caBIG

NIAMS, caBIG

WUSTL, BIRN

Lab of NeuroImaging UCLA (LONI)

BIRN

BIRN

Lung Cancer Alliance, Kitware

Optical Society of America, Kitware

Kitware

NIH, NIMH, NINDS, NICHD, NIEHS

NIH, NIMH, NICHD, NIDA, NINDS  

Content Type

In Vivo Cancer Imaging and related phantom data (see full Collection list)

In Vivo Cancer Imaging (see full collection list)

Osteoarthritis

Biomedical images and meta data

ADNI (Alzheimers),
CRYO (histology),
ICBM (Brain mapping),
AIBL (Autralian Aging)

Brain scans

ELUDE (Elderly Depression),
MIRIAD (Depression)

Patient-contributed Medical scans

Optical

Biomedical images and meta data

Autism - standard phenotypic data, imaging and genomic/pedigree data related to human subjects

Normal brain development

 

  

Archive Software

NBIA, AIM Data Service (XML image metadata), and XNAT (coming soon)a Clinical Data relational database

NBIA

NBIA

XNAT

Image Data Archive

custom

XNAT

MIDAS

MIDAS

MIDAS

customNDAR  

Login account required

Yes.  Accounts are free and available to anyone. Click here to register.

For advanced site features or limited access data sets, but is not required for accessing public data

Yes

For accessing limited access data sets, but not for public data

Yes, via email address.  Used only for providing links for downloading data.

 

For accessing limited access data sets, but not for public data

No

For accessing limited access data sets, but not for public data

For accessing limited access data sets, but not for public data

Yes

Yes  

Explicit data sharing policy

Yes, with options for uploading fully open or limited access data sets

Yes, with options for uploading fully open or limited access data sets

Yes, found here

No, data is made public or restricted as specified by the user who uploads it.

 

 

  

All data is made publicly accessible.

 

 

Yes, found here

Similar to NDAR but there is no explicit policy  

Number of Registered Users (or NA)

12,341333

 

 

 

 

 

  

N/A

 

 

60 for data access
100-200 for data submission

~30  

Accepting new dataYes (learn more)

Yes, with approval from NCI CBIIT

 

proposals are accepted via email and reviewed monthly by the TCIA Advisory Committee. Acceptance criteria is summarized here: Requesting Permission to Upload your Data.

Yes, with approval from NCI CBIIT

 

Yes, users can register accounts and upload Yes, users can register accounts and upload data

 

 

 

Yes, through Lung Cancer Alliance. Learn more here.

Yes, through the Optical Society of America

Yes, users can register accounts and upload data

Yes, learn more here

No  

Central curation/review

Yes, a trained staff visually inspects every image before making them visible

Yes, performed by CBIIT staff

multiple tiered de-identification and QC process is utilized involving both human review and systematic analysis.  The process is summarized in detail on the TCIA De-Identification Knowledge Base and What to Expect as an Image Provider.

Yes, performed by CBIIT staff

  

No

 

 

 

Yes, performed by Lung Cancer Alliance

Yes, performed by the Optical Society of America

Yes, performed by Kitware staff and peer reviews

Yes, pre-validation is performed to ensure all data conforms/harmonizes to the autism data dictionary. QA is also performed by NDAR staff to check for identifiable information.

Archived project, no longer receiving new data.  

Availability/Uptime

~99%, hosted on a redundant production system at WUSTL

~99%, hosted on a redundant production system at NCI CBIIT

 

 

 

 

 

~99%, hosted on a production server at Kitware

~99.9%, hosted on a production server at OSA

~99%, hosted on a production server at Kitware

~99%, imaging data hosted on Amazon and metadata hosted by NIH.

~99%, hosted by NIH.  

Project- or Collection- based groupings?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No  

Size of Current Volume

TCIA: 1.36 TB
NLST-LSS: 6.47 TB
NLST-ACRIN: 4.8 TB

Total: 12.63 TB

~2TB

~7.5TB

 

 

 

 

~2GB33GB

~50GB

~60GB

~2TB

~2TB  

Number of patients/subjects with imaging

TCIA: 3,166
NLST-LSS: 17,043
NLST-ACRIN: TBD

Total: 20,209

 

 

 

 

 

  

37

 

 

2500 NDAR

 

550 (migrated into NDAR)  

number Number of DICOM Tags query-able

~90 via NBIA

~90

~90

 

 

 

  

22 (imaging parameters in query interface)

 

 

9, with full listing from data dictionary. (4 NDAR, 5 Pediatric MRI)

9, with full listing from data dictionary. (4 NDAR, 5 Pediatric MRI)(4 NDAR, 5 Pediatric MRI)  
Metadata AvailabilityWide variety of clinical, genetic, and image segmentation/annotation available is available for various data sets.  Full summary can be viewed here in the "Supporting Data Available" column.      

Some unstructured clinical data such as patient age, cancer stage, recurrence, and treatment information.

      

Data submission/download methods

Submission via DICOM or HTTPS protocols using CTP. Download via Java Webstart client. A REST API is in development with an expected public release in the summer of 2013.

Submission via DICOM or HTTPS protocols using CTP. Download via Web (zip), FTP, Java Webstart client

Submission via DICOM or HTTPS protocols. Download via Web (zip), FTP, Java Webstart client

Submission via Web UI or DICOM protocol.  Download via Web (zip) or Java applet.

 

 

 

Submission via Web UI,
Download via Web (zip).

Submission via Web UI,
Download via Web (zip).

Submission via Web UI, DICOM push, MIDASDesktop, WebDAV.
Download via Web (zip), MIDASDesktop or WebDAV

Sites do their own de-identification any way they prefer, so long as it meets their IRB's approval.  They can optionally use MIPAV for this part of the process.  Submissions must conform to NDAR Data Dictionary. A custom Java Webstart application allows SFTP transfers. 

Not applicable.  

Helpdesk Support

Yes, the TCIA Helpdesk supports both end users and submitters. They provide phone and email support during regular business hours Mon-Fri.

Yes, CBIIT Application Support

Yes, CBIIT Application Support

 

 

 

 

No official helpdesk info found on the site.  Some support may be available from giveascan@lungcanceralliance.org.

 

 

Yes, available at ndarhelp@mail.nih.gov.

Yes, pedsmri@mail.nih.gov.  

Affiliation with Journal

No

No

No

No

 

 

  

No

Yes

 

No

No  

Intended Audience(s)

Cancer researchers, engineers and developers, professors

 

 

 

 

 

  

Lung cancer researchers

 

 

Autism researchers (clinical/phenotype/genomic), both those receiving autism related NIH grants and other investigators sponsored by an NIH recognized institution with a current federal-wide assurance.

Neuroscientists interested in normative brain study of child development.  

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Below is a list of image archive solutions that can be deployed by interested parties wishing to build their own DICOM based biomedical image archive. This list omits some of the archives above in cases where we could not find any information about how one might download and deploy their own instance of the software.

 Software Name and Web Site

NBIA

XNAT

MIDAS

Interface/GUI

Web

Web

Web/Desktop Application

Query types/flexibility

Simple (9 parameters), Advanced (10 more parameters), Dynamic (boolean query of up to 90 DICOM tags)

Limited subset of DICOM tags out of the box but is highly configurable for adding the ability to query on just about any kind of meta data you wish to provide

Customizable, search by any tags registered in the system

Role Based Security

Yes

Yes

Yes

Public access option (no login req)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Active Development

Yes, NCI CBIIT

Yes, WUSTL Neuroinformatics Research Group

Yes, Kitware

License

Open source - NBIA License Agreement Details

Non-restrictive (BSD) open-source license - XNAT License Agreement Details

non-restrictive (BSD) open-source license

Supports Federated Implementation

Yes, can discover other nodes on the caGrid

Not currently, but there are plans to add this functionality eventually

No

API available

Yes, caGrid

Yes, REST

Yes, REST, OAI-PMH

Supported image formats

DICOM

Automated import of DICOM and ECAT. Custom importers can be implemented for other formats.  Any file type can be uploaded through the API and web interface.

DICOM and other ITK-based format

Supported metadata formats

XML, Zip

XML

XML

Transfer protocols (import/export)

DICOM, HTTPS

DICOM, HTTPS

DICOM, HTTPS

Controlled Vocabulary

Follows caBIG standards (caDSR/EVS)

XNAT Schema

NIH Mesh and Dublin Core

Deployment Support

Yes, CBIIT Application Support or via NBIA User Listserv

XNAT Google Discussion group, monthly developer tcons, biannual user conference

Yes, MIDAS mailing list

Support Operating Systems

Linux, Windows, Mac

Linux, Windows, Mac

Linux, Windows, Mac

Data submission options

Submission to NBIA is performed by a java tool called CTP developed by John Perry at the RSNA.  CTP has options to import data from a hard drive or directly from a PACS or DICOM Workstation.

Direct upload is available through the web UI, direct DICOM transfer, scripts using REST API.

Direct upload via web UI, direct DICOM transfer via push, MIDASDesktop transfer (includes command line tools), WebDAV support.

Standard of De-Identification

Incorporates DICOM de-identification standards from The Attribute Confidentiality Profile (DICOM PS 3.15: Appendix E) via CTP.

Built-in de-identification language based on DICOM Browser can be configured to comply with DICOM PS 3.15: Appendix E and other standards.

No, but pre-storage filters can be run automatically

Support for multi-site submissions

Yes

Yes

Yes

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