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A full list of clinical trial imaging data sets that originated from the NCI National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) that are avaialbe on TCIA are listed here.

which is a collection of organizations and clinicians that coordinates and supports cancer clinical trials at more than 3,000 sites across the United States and Canada. The NCTN provides the infrastructure for NCI-funded treatment, screening, and diagnosis trials to improve the lives of patients with cancer.  The NCTN explicitly requires data sharing of the patient-level clinical data in https://nctn-data-archive.nci.nih.gov/view-trials, and TCIA serves as the imaging repository for that archive.

In 2015, ECOG-ACRIN was awarded a grant from NCI for "ECOG-ACRIN-Based QIN Resource for Advancing Quantitative Cancer Imaging in Clinical Trials" to support research resources for the NCI-funded Quantitative Imaging Network (QIN ). The QIN is a collective of NCI funded groups from roughly two dozen centers with a technical and clinical focus of developing robust methods to predict and/or measure response to therapy and encourage their broad dissemination within the imaging, oncology, and device industry communities [4].

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