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The Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) with the cooperation of several of the TCGA GBM tissue-contributing institutions has archived a large portion of the diagnostic MRIs radiological images of the genetically-analyzed cases. That Clinical, genetic, and pathological data resides in the TCGA data portal. These images, using their TCGA identifier tags allow while the radiological data is stored within NBIA. The data utilizes the same TCGA patient identifiers in both repositories, allowing researchers to explore the genomic, clinical, and pathological data being stored within the TCGA Data Portal. These data sets therefore permit a link between radiological phenotype and tissue genotypecorrelations between tissue genotype and radiological phenotype. Although the present image archive has , for the moment, only acquired GBM images, over time, cases at this point images from new TCGA-studied tumor types will be acquired and made available on the public NBIA archive.

CIP TCGA Informatics Initiative

The Cancer Imaging Program has begun multiple projects to collaborate with the academic community to encourage cross disciplinary research which utilizes the data provided in these valuable resources. More information about ongoing projects in this area can be found on the CIP TCGA Radiology Initiative wiki page.

caBIG Tools for TCGA Analysis

Informatics software for use with this data has also been developed as part of the caBIG TCGA Enterprise Use-Case project. This caBIG enterprise use-case enables TCGA images stored in NBIA to be displayed on three different free and/or open source DICOM viewer workstations that possess annotation and markup capabilities based on Annotation Imaging Markup (AIM).

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