When you download images you have added to your cart, NBIA provides a list of these images in a manifest file (manifest-xxx.tcia). You must have already installed the NBIA Data Retriever to open this manifest file and download the images.
You can share the manifest file with collaborators, so that they can download the same images that you have added to your cart. Collaborators must also install the NBIA Data Retriever to open the manifest file.
If you want to share a manifest file that includes links to private image collections, you must first manually install the latest NBIA Data Retriever. The latest version of the NBIA Data Retriever controls access to private collections. In addition, your collaborators must have the same access to those private collections as you do. Otherwise, your collaborators will not be able to download images from those collections.
To download images using the NBIA Data Retriever
- Search for images of interest.
- Add those images to your cart.
- Click the cart icon in the top-right of the page
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The cart contents appear.
- Click
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A message appears reminding you to download the NBIA Data Retriever. If you have already downloaded it, click Do not show this message again and click. Otherwise, click 
to go to a page with links for downloads for each operating system.
Open the
manifest-xxx.tciafile.
The NBIA Data Retriever appears, with the items you added to your cart in the Downloads table.
The NBIA Data Retriever lists all items you selected in the cart. You can hover your mouse over the Patient ID, Study Instance, and Series Instance columns to reveal the complete corresponding IDs. You can also resize a column by selecting and dragging the column border.
If you do not want to download any of those items, select them in the Downloads table and then click Delete. When you remove an item from the Downloads table, it stays in your cart.
Click Browse to navigate to the destination where you want the images/annotations to be downloaded.
- Click Start to begin the download. You can monitor the download in the Progress column. The Status column indicates when the download for each item is complete.
At any point in the process, you can click the Pause and Resume buttons to temporarily stop and restart the process.
Note that files downloaded this way are not compressed. The downloaded files are stored in a child folder under the destination folder such as
Collection Name > Patient ID > part of Study Date + part of Study ID + part of Study Description + last 5 digits of Study Instance UID > part of Series Number + part of Series Description + last 5 digits of Series Instance UID.Network Error?
If network errors occur during large downloads, the NBIA Data Retriever retries downloading the series in the manifest file the number of times that your administrator has configured. The default is four times.
After the automatic retries, you have the option of saving an error report, which you can share with NCI Application Support or of retrying just the failed series.
