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At the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) direction, personnel from The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) collect and curate clinical and pre-clinical (animal studies) Radiology and Pathology images, clinical trial data (including patient demographics and clinical outcomes), annotations and image derived features and other types of clinical research data (e.g., gene expression profiles). Data comes from NIH programs, funded research and clinical trials and community-submitted proposals to publish data. The ultimate goal of TCIA is to make the data publicly available to increase transparency and reproducibility in cancer imaging research. To To facilitate this goal, TCIA provides data de-identification, curation and hosting services to remove these burdens from individual investigators and institutions.
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The value of TCIA increases as we receive new data sharing proposals from the research community. 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. Researchers with the following objectives are encouraged to submit an application to publish their data. These applications will be reviewed with the following criteria in mind:
- 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?
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 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. The Advisory Group is composed of staff from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) who are experts in cancer imaging, informatics and related technologies. The current membership includes:
- Janet Eary, Associate Director, NCI Cancer Imaging Program
- Lalitha Shankar, Branch Chief, NCI Cancer Imaging Program
- Irina A. Lubensky, Chief, NCI Cancer Diagnosis Program
- Krishnan Patel, Assistant Research Physician, Radiation Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research
If approved, submitting sites must sign our TCIA Data Submission Agreement before data collection is initiated. See our Data Usage Policies and Restrictions page for more information about the rules for downstream use of these data.
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