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Background

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The genomic, clinical and histopathology images from the project are available via NCI's Genomic Data Commons.  NCI's Cancer Imaging Program subsequently leveraged the via TCGA Data Portal.As an opportunity to leverage this wealth of new biomedical knowledge, CIP used its agreements with TCGA Tissue Site Source institutions Sites to collect clinical diagnostic images for TCIA that match genomically analyzed tissue cases in the 20-plus cancer types that TCGA has characterized. 

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

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

There are no limitations on publications containing analyses using TCGA-linked imaging data 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 since the authors’ DICOM data for 100 cases of a given tumor type have been published on TCIA; or
3. The author receives specific approval from the TCGA ISS groups representing any relevant tumor types.

The specific status of each tumor data set is available below. Do not hesitate to contact cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov with any questions.

from these subjects and make them available on TCIA.  By combining the imaging data from TCIA with the other data types collected by TCGA a research community focused on connecting cancer phenotypes to genotypes was formed, resulting in over one hundred peer-reviewed publications about these data.

Data Access

Radiology data for TCGA patients are hosted on TCIA.  Pathology images were collected prior to TCIA's involvement in the project, and are hosted on NCI's Genomic Data Commons along with the genomic and clinical data from these studies.  Use the links in the table to access each type of imaging data.

Historically TCIA had implemented publication guidelines derived from the policy outlined by the The Cancer Genome Atlas, TCGA. These were followed in addition to the publication policy of the TCGA Data Portal: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/abouttcga/policies/publicationguidelines.  As of 10/30/2018 all cancer types are now available for use without any special restrictions.  Please be sure to follow TCIA's regular Data Usage Policies and Restrictions, and to also provide attribution recognizing the TCGA data collection efforts.  An example of a proper attribution is:

"The results <published or shown> here are in whole or part based upon data generated by the TCGA Research Network: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/."

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

• TCGA Publications
• TCGA Publication Guidelines 

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

• TCIA Workshop at 2014 TCGA Symposium - Presented at TCGA Scientific Symposium, May 12, 2014 in Washington, DC.
• Imaging and Genomics: Is There a Synergy? - Published in Radiology 2012 ,264:329–31.
• A Scalable Methodology for Correlating Clinical Imaging Features with TCGA Data - Presented at TCGA Network Symposium, November 17–18, 2011 Washington, DC.
• The Cancer Imaging Archive: a Repository of Advanced Imaging Information Correlated with TCGA Samples - Presented at TCGA Network Symposium, November 17–18, 2011 Washington, DC.

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