In some cases the image collections in The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) were provided with specific restrictions in regards to their usage. For example, some data may be the subject of patent applications or issued patents, and you may need to seek a license for its commercial use. This is covered in the provisions that all users agree to during account registration. For ease of use we have summarized any such restrictions on this page. All other collections not mentioned here should be considered freely available to browse, download, and use for commercial, scientific and educational purposes as outlined in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Questions may be directed to help@cancerimagingarchive.net.
Citation Policy
Please refer to our TCIA Citation Guidelines for more information about how to properly credit TCIA and its data submitters in your work.
Citation Policy Exceptions
In addition to following TCIA's Citation Guidelines, some collections have additional required citations or acknowledgements associated with their use.
1. LIDC-IDRI
If you use this data in your research please be sure to include the following attribution in any publications or grant applications along with references to appropriate LIDC publications. A listing of these publications can be found on TCIA's Related Publications page.
LIDC-IDRI Attribution:
The authors acknowledge the National Cancer Institute and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and their critical role in the creation of the free publicly available LIDC/IDRI Database used in this study.
2. Phantom FDA
When using this data in scientific publications or technical reports please cite the following reference:
Marios A Gavrielides , Lisa M Kinnard, Kyle J Myers, Jenifer Peregoy, William F Pritchard, Rongping Zeng, Juan Esparza, John Karanian, and Nicholas Petrick , "A resource for the assessment of lung nodule size estimation methods: database of thoracic CT scans of an anthropomorphic phantom", Optics Express , vol. 18, n.14, pp. 15244-15255, 2010.
Restricted for 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
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