Summary

Project Summary

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The Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) is working directly with primary investigators from institutes participating in TCGA to obtain and load images relating to the genomic, clinical, and pathological data being stored within the TCGA Data Portal.  Currently this large MR multi-sequence image collection of pre-surgical glioblastoma patients can be matched by each unique case identifier with the extensive gene and expression data of the same case from the Cancer Genome Atlas Data Portal to research the link between clinical phenome and tissue genome.  Over time it is expected to grow in diversity, including other tumor types that are being collected as part of the funded TCGA activities.

These images were also utilized as part of the caBIG TCGA Enterprise Use Case project. This caBIG enterprise use case involves loading the TCGA images stored in NBIA into 3 different workstations that are being developed with annotation and markup capabilities based on Annotation Imaging Markup (AIM). 

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with the cooperation of several of the TCGA tissue-contributing institutions has archived a large portion of the radiological images of the genetically-analyzed cases. Clinical, genetic, and pathological data resides in the TCGA data portal while the radiological data is stored within TCIA. The data utilizes the same TCGA patient identifiers in both repositories, allowing researchers to explore the correlations between tissue genotype and radiological phenotype.

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