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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

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 a Clinical Data relational database

NBIA

NBIA

XNAT

Image Data Archive

custom

XNAT

MIDAS

MIDAS

MIDAS

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. Click here to register.

Yes. Click here to register.

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

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

Number of Registered Users (or NA)

2,333

 2,712

N/A

60 for data access
100-200 for data submission

Accepting new data

Yes, 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

More data is being added as part of the official initiative, but external proposals are not being accepted.

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

Central curation/review

Yes, a 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

Yes, performed by NIAMS 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.

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 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.

Project- or Collection- based groupings?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Size of Current Volume

TCIA: 1.8 TB
NLST-LSS: 6.5 TB
NLST-ACRIN: 4.8 TB
Total: 13.1 TB

~2TB

~7.5TB

33GB

~50GB

~60GB

~2TB

Number of patients/subjects with imaging

TCIA: 3,685
NLST-LSS: 17,043
NLST-ACRIN: 9,211
Total: 29,939

4,920

4,796

3,494

37

2500 NDAR

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)

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 using CTP. 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. 

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 email support may be available.

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

Affiliation with Journal

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

Intended Audience(s)

Cancer researchers, engineers and developers, professors

Cancer researchers and anyone interested in testing the functionality of the NBIA software.

Osteoarthritis researchers

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.