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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.  Some information was subsequently updated in July 2011.  See the wiki page history for a full log of the changes.

 

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)

Pediatric MRI Data Repository

Insight Journal

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

NIH, NDAR

Kitware

Content Type

In Vivo Cancer Imaging (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

Normal brain development 

Biomedical images and meta data

Archive Software

NBIA

NBIA

NBIA

XNAT

Image Data Archive

custom

XNAT

MIDAS

MIDAS

custom

MIDAS

Login account required

Yes.  Accounts are free and available to anyone.

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

Yes, found here

No

 

 

 

 

 



Accepting new data

Yes (learn more)

Yes, with approval from NCI CBIIT/CIP

 

Yes, users can register accounts and upload data

 

 

 

Yes, through Lung Cancer Alliance

Yes, through the Optical Society of America


Yes, users can register accounts and upload data

Central curation/review

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

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

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

Project- or Collection- based groupings?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Yes

Yes


Yes

Size of Current Volume

~230GB

~2TB

~7.5TB

 

 

 

 

~2GB

~50GB


~60GB

number of DICOM Tags query-able

~90

~90

~90

 

 

 

 

 

 



Data submission/download methods

Submission via DICOM or HTTPS protocols using CTP. Download via Java Webstart client

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

Helpdesk Support

Yes, the TCIA Helpesk supports both end users and submitters

Yes, CBIIT Application Support

Yes, CBIIT Application Support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Affiliation with Journal

No

No

No

No

 

 

 

 

Yes



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