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The following table is a list of publicly accessible DICOM based biomedical image archives. Following the table is an analysis of what was found upon reviewing each archive between August and October of 2010.
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Supporting Institution(s) |
| Cancer Imaging Program, caBIG | NIAMS, caBIG | WUSTL, BIRN | Lab of NeuroImaging UCLA (LONI) | BIRN | BIRN | Lung Cancer Alliance, Kitware | Optical Society of America, Kitware | NIH, NDAR | Kitware | |||
Content Type |
| Osteoarthritis | Biomedical images and meta data | ADNI (Alzheimers), | Brain scans | ELUDE (Elderly Depression), | Patient-contributed Medical scans | Optical | Normal brain development | Biomedical images and meta data | ||||
Archive Software |
| Image Data Archive | custom | custom | ||||||||||
Login account required |
| 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 | Yes | For accessing limited access data sets, but not for public data | |||
Explicit data sharing policy |
| Yes, with options for uploading fully open or limited access data sets | Yes, found here | No |
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Accepting new data |
| Yes, with approval from NCI CBIIT/CIP |
| Yes, users can register accounts and upload data |
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| Yes, through Lung Cancer Alliance | Yes, through the Optical Society of America | Yes, users can register accounts and upload data | ||||
Central curation/review |
| Yes, performed by CBIIT/CIP staff |
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| Yes, performed by Lung Cancer Alliance | Yes, performed by the Optical Society of America | Yes, performed by Kitware staff and peer reviews | ||||
Availability/Uptime |
| ~99%, hosted on a redundant production system at NCI CBIIT |
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| ~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 | ||||
Project- or Collection- based groupings? |
| Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Size of Current Volume |
| ~3TB | ~6TB |
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| ~2GB | ~50GB | ~60GB | ||||
number of DICOM Tags query-able |
| ~90 | ~90 |
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Data submission/download methods |
| 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. |
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| Submission via Web UI, | Submission via Web UI, | Submission via Web UI, DICOM push, MIDASDesktop, WebDAV. | ||||
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Affiliation with Journal |
| No | No | No |
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caBIG
NBIA
- Open source, federated model for grid based image sharing.
- Allows for "nodes" to be deployed in other institutions, which can then be connected via the grid so they are query-able from any NBIA server.
- Includes both public data access without login as well as option to build secure role-based Collections which require special access via logging in
- Simple search query options include node selection, modality, contrast enhancement, anatomical site, image slice thickness, Collections (pre-defined sets of related images), the date the images were made available, and whether or not they have associated annotations
- Advanced and Dynamic search options available to search upwards of 70 additional DICOM tag attributes
- Images can be viewed on the web site via JPG thumbnails or using the Cine functionality
- Allows for storage of annotation files and meta data, though there are plans to move most of this functionality to AIM data services in the near future
- Downloads are provided in 3 formats, either via a Java webstart client (no size requirement issues, images are not zipped) or HTTP (zipped, for downloads <3GB in size) or an emailed link to an FTP site (zipped, for downloads >3GB in size)
- Currently 2 major nodes hosted at NCI, one for CIP/CBIIT and another for NIAMS.
- CIP/CBIIT
- http://imaging.nci.nih.gov
- Contains ~25 purpose built image collections, ~15 of which are publicly accessible to anyone - more info on the contents of each collection can be found at https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/x/lRWy
- Collections range in size from as small as a handful of patients up to larger collections such as LIDC-IDRI (1010 patients) or the colonoscopy collections (over 800 patients each)
- Approximately 2.5 TB of image data as of August 2010
- NIAMS
- https://niams-imaging.nci.nih.gov/
- Contains data on nearly 5,000 osteoarthritis patients as of August 2010
- Modalities include MRI and CR
- CIP/CBIIT
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