The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) User's Guide is the companion documentation to the TCIA software application. It explains how to use TCIA to access imaging archives.
This chapter introduces you to the guide. It includes the following topics.
Audience
The intended audience for this guide is anyone in the cancer research and medical community, industry, and academia that wants to use TCIA to obtain Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) and related metadata for use in their research.
Topics Covered
The TCIA User's Guide discusses the following topics included as chapters:
- Chapter 1 Getting Started in TCIA provides an introduction to TCIA and describes how to access TCIA.
- Chapter 2 Searching TCIA for Images describes how to search the local and any selected remote image databases.
- Chapter 3 Working with Images in TCIA describes how to review results from TCIA database searches.
