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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.
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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 | 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), | 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 | 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 |
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Accepting new data | Yes (learn more) | Yes, with approval from NCI CBIIT/CIP |
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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, a trained staff visually inspects every image before making them visible | Yes, performed by CBIIT 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 WUSTL | ~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 | Yes |
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Size of Current Volume | ~230GB | ~2TB | ~7.5TB |
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number of DICOM Tags query-able | ~90 | ~90 | ~90 |
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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. |
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| Submission via Web UI, | Submission via Web UI, | Submission via Web UI, DICOM push, MIDASDesktop, WebDAV. | |
Helpdesk Support | Yes, the TCIA Helpesk supports both end users and submitters |
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Affiliation with Journal | No | No | No | No |
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