Project Summary

To view TCGA MRIs and download their DICOM files go to the NBIA website and search the collection named: TCGA

The Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) with the cooperation of several of the TCGA GBM tissue-contributing institutions has archived a large portion of the pre-surgical diagnostic MRIs of the genetically-analyzed cases. That genetic data resides in the TCGA data portal. These images, using their TCGA identifier tags allow researchers to explore the genomic, clinical, and pathological data being stored within the TCGA Data Portal. These data sets therefore permit a link between clinical phenotype and tissue genotype. Although the present image archive has for the moment only acquired GBM case images, over time images from new TCGA collections arising from other TCGA studied tumor types will be collected.

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). 

As of October 2009 the caBIG Imaging Workspace completed Phase I of this Enterprise Use Case. ClearCanvas (Windows), Osirix (Mac) and XIP (caBIG open source/cross platform) were customized to allow retrieval of images from NBIA over the caGrid, markup in AIM standards, and storage back to an AIM-E data service. More information can be found on the TCGA Radiology Project Phase I Homepage.