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• DataCite Web-based API: Each Collection TCIA publishes is issued a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through DataCite.  This API can be used to programmatically access Collection metadata such as their DOIs, titles and abstracts. Please note that this API was not developed by TCIA. See https://support.datacite.org/ for any technical questions. The TCIA Helpdesk may be able to assist if your inquiry is related to the content of the data itself.
• IDC-Index Python Package: DICOM data from TCIA is available on the Imaging Data Commons (IDC).  The IDC-Index Python Package provides an API for querying metadata and downloading imaging data held in IDC, including DICOM data provided by TCIA.  Please note that this Python Package was not developed by TCIA, though it is provided by a branch of NCI.  While the TCIA Helpdesk may be able to assist if your inquiry is related to the content of the data itself, questions about the use of the package itself should be directed to the IDC Forum.

TCIA Agent Skill

An agent skill is a portable bundle of instructions, references, and helper scripts that an AI agent can load when a task matches a domain.  The TCIA SKILL.mdtells LLMs how to perform a variety of tasks related to our datasets and related publications about them.  Simply install this skill in tools that support them (e.g. Codex, Claude Code, Cursor) or ask your favorite browser-based LLM tool to reference https://github.com/kirbyju/tcia-query-skill/blob/main/SKILL.md and ask your questions.

TCIA_Utils

The tcia_utils package contains functions to simplify common tasks one might perform when interacting with The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) via Python. If you are using R, please try using this package with reticulate (see example below). Issues with this package should be submitted at https://github.com/kirbyju/tcia_utils/issues. Example notebooks demonstrating tcia_utils functionality can be found at https://github.com/kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks. 

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 To import functions related to NBIA the Imaging Data Commons for accessing our public DICOM radiology data: (Note: we are transitioning to NCI's Imaging Data Commons and will be deprecating NBIA – please switch to the idc.py module or use the IDC-Index Python Package for public DICOM data)

from tcia_utils import nbiaidc

To import functions related to pathDB for accessing our non-DICOM digitized pathology data:

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