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The value of TCIA increases as we receive new data sharing proposals from the research community. Researchers with the following objectives are encouraged to submit an application to publish their data:
- How important is this data set to facilitating research reproducibility in this topic area?
- Does this dataset address a data gap for critical current research for a clinical need?
- Is this a novel/unique dataset compared to what’s already in TCIA?
- Is the dataset of a sufficient size/scale to support scientific conclusions or hypothesis development?
- Does the dataset contain sufficient supporting data and documentation?
- If the dataset consists of an analysis of image based data, is it based on a biological hypothesis or other proposed discovery about the patho-physiological basis of cancer?
- Meeting the data sharing requirements set forth by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for grant or contract awards
- Meeting the data sharing requirements set forth by a peer reviewed journal for publication
- Sharing data that could stimulate discoveries in emerging areas of cancer imaging research (e.g. radiogenomics, immunotherapy)
- Sharing data to be used in challenge competitions or for benchmarking and validating analysis techniques in image processing
We do not charge a fee for sharing your data through TCIA except in rare circumstances where proposals are extremely large. TCIA is funded by the National Cancer Institute, therefore all applications must have relevance to cancer research. Applications are reviewed monthly by the TCIA Advisory Group to assess their utility to the TCIA user community. Proposals which contain supporting non-image data (e.g. patient outcomes, training classifiers/labels, tumor segmentations) are highly preferred to those which lack these characteristics.
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