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TCGA began in 2006 as a three-year pilot jointly sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The TCGA pilot project (focused initially on glioblastoma, ovary, and lung cancers) confirmed that an atlas of genomic changes could be constructed for specific cancer types. It also showed that a national network networks of research and technology teams working on related projects could pool their efforts, create an economy of scale, and develop an infrastructure for making the data publicly accessible. Importantly, it proved that making the data freely available would enable Freely available data enables researchers across the world to make and validate important discoveries. The success of that pilot led encouraged the National Institutes of Health to commit major new resources to TCGA (NIH) to invest in TCGA’s efforts to collect and characterize more than 20 additional tumor types .  All of the data is made and make findings freely accessible for researchers to download via their  TCGA Data Portal.

As an opportunity to leverage that this wealth of new biomedical knowledge, CIP committed substantial effort to gather and place the used its agreements with TCGA Tissue Site Source institutions to collect clinical diagnostic images for TCIA that match the genomically analyzed TCGA tissue cases in to TCIA. CIP has developed agreements with many of the TCGA Tissue Site Source institutions to collect many of the 20-plus cancer types that TCGA has analyzedcharacterized. 

Imaging Source Site (ISS) Groups groups are being created and governed by participants from institutions that have provided providing imaging data to the archive for a given cancer type. Modeled after TCGA TCGA’s analysis groups, these ISS Groups are given groups have the opportunity to publish a marker paper for a given cancer type, as outlined in the publication policies outlined below, to incentivize increased increase participation in the building of these multi-institutional data sets that become into an open community resource. 

TCIA publication guidelines are , derived from the policy outlined by the The Cancer Genome Atlas. These TCGA, must be followed followed in addition to the publication policy of  to the TCGA Data Portal publication policy: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/abouttcga/policies/publicationguidelines.

There are no limitations on publications containing analyses using any TCGA-linked imaging data set sets if the data set meets one of the following three freedom-to-publish criteria:

1. A marker paper has been published on that tumor type; or
2. It has been 12 months after since the authors’ DICOM data for 100 cases of a given tumor type have had their DICOM data been published on TCIA; or
3. The author receives specific approval from the TCGA Image Source Site (ISS) Groups ISS groups representing any relevant tumor types.

Specifically, the The specific status of each tumor data set is available below. If you have questions, do Do not hesitate to contact cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov with any questions.

CIP continues to encourage ad hoc multi-institutional research teams for analysis of to analyze these data sets as they are collected. Efforts have already begun or are being initiated for the following TCGA tissue types.  Points of contact for collaborating with the existing research groups can be found on their respective pages.

Included below are some posters and presentations which help summarize the CIP TCGA Radiology Initiative and its supporting components such as TCIA.

• Imaging and Genomics: Is There a Synergy? - Published in August 2012 in Radiology 2012 ,264,329-331:329–31.
• A Scalable Methodology for Correlating Clinical Imaging Features with TCGA Data - Presented at TCGA Network Symposium, November 17-1817–18,Washington,DC
• The Cancer Imaging Archive: a Repository of Advanced Imaging Information Correlated with TCGA Samples - Presented at TCGA Network Symposium, November 17-1817–18,Washington,DC

The following links contain publications from the main TCGA project, as well as their posted publication guidelines.

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