- Current Release of NBIA: 6.5 Community Version, August 2018, release notes
- Current Release of NBIA Data Retriever: 3.3, February 2019
- Primary audience: Investigators and Researchers
- Installation Level: Intermediate - technical assistance may be required; download may require supporting infrastructure or software.
- System Requirements: Provides web-based access to de-identified DICOM images, markups, and annotations using role-based security. The NBIA download package is a ZIP package that includes the NBIA application, supporting libraries, RSNA Clinical Trial Processor (CTP) submission client/server (with NBIA modifications), and associated documentation.
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Tool Overview
The National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA) is a free and open source service and software application that enables users to securely store, search, and download diagnostic medical images, providing a searchable national repository integrating in vivo cancer images with clinical data. Using role-based security, NBIA provides web-based access to de-identified DICOM images, image markup, annotations, and rich metadata. The NBIA download package is a ZIP package that includes the NBIA application, supporting libraries, the RSNA MIRC application (with NBIA modifications), documentation, and a sample NBIA database. |
Along with the Clinical Trial Processor software from the Radiological Society of North America, NBIA supports customized de-identification of images. NBIA is able to integrate with other applications through a set of APIs. For more information, see the NBIA REST API User Guide, NBIA DICOM API User's Guide, and NBIA WADO API User's Guide.
NCI's hosted instance of NBIA provides researchers and clinicians with a demonstration of a robust DICOM archive that can securely share and access images to enhance scientific research and support clinical decision making. Anyone can deploy a local instance of NBIA, which you can customize to your organization's branding.
Installation and Downloads
Before installing NBIA, you must download and install Java SE Development Kit 8, Apache Ant, MySQL, and Tomcat, and set environmental variables. Refer to Chapters 3 and 4 of the NBIA Installation Guide for details.
NBIA provides a simplified approach to installing on Linux and Windows platforms. Much of the installation process has been automated so that if you accept the default values, you can install NBIA by typing the single command ant. The NBIA installation configures Tomcat for running NBIA and the optional NBIA REST API, and creates an NBIA-specific schema within a pre-existing database on a pre-installed MySQL server. Refer to Chapter 5 of the NBIA Installation Guide for NBIA installation details.
Documentation is available on the NBIA wiki. There is also an NBIA GitHub repository. 
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NBIA Installation Files and Release Notes
The following table with NBIA 7.0 GA Artifacts only appears if you are a member of the NBIA_DEV group. |
NBIA Data Retriever 3.3 (Current Release)
The NBIA Data Retriever is an application that allows you to download the images you have added to your cart. More information on how to use the NBIA Data Retriever is in the NBIA User's Guide.
| Platform | File | Size |
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| Windows | | 100.32 MB |
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| Linux (tested on CentOS) | NBIADataRetriever-3.3-1.x86_64.rpm To run this file, type the following at the command prompt:
sudo yum -v -y remove TCIADownloader.x86_64;sudo yum -y install NBIADataRetriever -3.3-1.x86_64.rpm
| 91.15 MB |
| Linux (tested on Ubuntu) | nbia-data-retriever-3.3.deb
To run this file, type the following at the command prompt:
sudo -S dpkg -r tciadownloader;sudo -S dpkg -i nbia-data-retriever-3.3.deb | 82.8 MB |
Support and Documentation
Defects and Feature Requests
Open Source Development
Contact Application Support for information about open source development and NBIA.
Refer to the latest user's guide and installation guide.
Presentations, Demos and Other Materials