For any manuscript developed using data from The Cancer Imaging Archive please cite the following publication:
Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, Freymann J, Kirby J, Koppel P, Moore S, Phillips S, Maffitt D, Pringle M, Tarbox L, Prior F. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 26, Number 6, December, 2013, pp 1045-1057. (paper)
If you have utilized TCIA in your research, please contact us at help@cancerimagingarchive.net so we can include your work on our Related Publications page. We also encourage researchers to tweet about their TCIA-related research with the hash tag #TCIAresearch.
Citing TCIA Collections
Each published TCIA Collection has an associated Digital Object Identifier (DOI). When citing a TCIA collection, be sure to use the DOI for the data rather than citing the wiki page URL. Consult the Citation & Data Usage Policy found on each Collection's summary page to learn more about how it should be cited and any usage restrictions. For some collections, there may also be additional papers that should be cited listed in this section. Here is a screenshot showing where to find the DOI and data usage policy on each collection page:
Collection Specific Usage Policies
Most collections are freely available to browse, download, and use for commercial, scientific and educational purposes as outlined in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Please consult the Citation & Data Usage Policy for each Collection you've used to see usage restrictions. Some collections have additional copyrights or restrictions associated with their use which we have summarized below for convenience.
Restricted from Commercial Use
The following data are not permitted for commercial applications. Please contact the associated data submitters with any questions about utilizing this data.
- Phantom FDA - Marios Gavrielides, Tel. (301) 796-2545, marios.gavrielides@fda.hhs.gov
- NSCLC-Radiomics - Hugo Aerts, hugo_aerts@dfci.harvard.edu.
- NSCLC-Radiomics-Genomics - Hugo Aerts, hugo_aerts@dfci.harvard.edu.
Copyrighted Data
The following data is copyrighted. Please contact the associated data submitters with any questions about utilizing this data.
- 3D segmentation files provided as metadata to PROSTATE-DIAGNOSIS collection - Nicolas Bloch, nicolas.bloch@bmc.org
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Publication Guidelines
TCIA publication guidelines are derived from the policy outlined by the The Cancer Genome Atlas, TCGA. These must be followed in addition to the publication policy of the TCGA Data Portal: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/abouttcga/policies/publicationguidelines.
There are no limitations on publications containing analyses using any TCGA-linked imaging data set if the data set meets one of the following three freedom-to-publish criteria:
- A marker paper has been published on that tumor type; or
- 12 months after 100 cases of a given tumor type have had their DICOM data published on TCIA; or
- The author receives specific approval from the TCGA Image Source Site (ISS) Groups representing any relevant tumor types.
Imaging Source Site (ISS) Groups will be populated and governed by participants from institutions that have provided imaging data to the archive for a given cancer type. Modeled after TCGA analysis groups, these groups are given the opportunity to publish a marker paper for a given cancer type per the aforementioned publication policy. It is hoped that this will generate increased participation in the building of these multi-institutional data sets that become an open community resource.
Specifically, the status of each tumor data set is available below. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact help@cancerimagingarchive.net.
Tumor Type | TCGA Data Portal Status (clinical, genomics, and pathology data) | TCIA Data Status (diagnostic imaging data) |
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TCGA-BLCA | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; image data available without limitations | |
TCGA-CESC | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
TCGA-COAD | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
TCGA-ESCA | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; image data available without limitations | |
TCGA-HNSC | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; image data available without limitations |
TCGA-KICH | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; image data available without limitations | |
TCGA-KIRP | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication | |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication | |
TCGA-LUSC | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication | |
TCGA-READ | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
TCGA-SARC | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
TCGA-STAD | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
TCGA-THCA | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |
TCGA-UCEC | No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Collection has not reached 100 imaging subjects; please check with help@cancerimagingarchive.net prior to any publication |