The Cancer Imaging Archive now also hosts pathology images from the National Lung Screening Trial, in addition to radiology and a subset of trial data The NLST was conducted by two separate networks of screening centers: 1) Lung Screening Study Network (LSS):10 centers and 34,612 participants; and 2) American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN): 23 centers and 18,840 participants. TCIA hosts pathology data from LSS.
As part of the pathology collection effort tissue, images, and data was obtained from 463 lung cancer patients (out of 1,284 total lung cancer patients in LSS). Note that nine of these 463 participants had two primary lung tumors; only one tumor’s data and images are accessible through TCIA for these nine participants. ACRIN pathology images and data are not available through TCIA.
Getting Access to NLST Pathology
To gain access to NLST pathology data and images, please submit a request through the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Data Access System (CDAS). More information can be found here: https://biometry.nci.nih.gov/cdas/nlst/requests/instructions/
Overview of Pathology Data