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.
Collection Specific Publication Policies
In addition to following TCIA's Citation Guidelines, some collections have additional restrictions, required citations or acknowledgements associated with their use.
1. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Collections
TCIA publication guidelines are derived from the policy outlined by the The Cancer Genome Atlas. 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 cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov.
Tumor Type | ||
|---|---|---|
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; image data available without limitations | |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | No restrictions; image data available without limitations | |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Publication limitations in place until 10/16/2013 | |
No restrictions; all data available without limitations | Projects have not reached 100 imaging cases; Please check with cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication | |
Publication limitations in place until 5/30/2013 | Projects have not reached 100 imaging cases; Please check with cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication | |
Publication limitations in place until 3/11/2014 | Projects have not reached 100 imaging cases; Please check with cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication | |
Publication limitations in place until 3/11/2014. Please check with tcga@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication | Projects have not reached 100 imaging cases; Please check with cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication | |
Publication limitations in place until 07/31/2014. Please check with tcga@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication | Projects have not reached 100 imaging cases; Please check with cancerimagingarchive@mail.nih.gov prior to any publication |
2. LIDC-IDRI
When using this data in scientific publications or technical reports please cite the following reference:
Armato SG III, McLennan G, Bidaut L, McNitt-Gray MF, Meyer CR, Reeves AP, Zhao B, Aberle DR, Henschke CI, Hoffman EA, Kazerooni EA, MacMahon H, van Beek EJR, Yankelevitz D, et al.: The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and Image Database Resource Initiative (IDRI): A completed reference database of lung nodules on CT scans. Medical Physics, 38: 915--931, 2011.
Additionally, please include the following 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.
3. 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