Executive Summary

This guide provides an overview of The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) and explains how to use the National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA) software, which powers TCIA to search for and download images.

The source of most of the instructions in this guide is the NBIA 6.0 User's Guide produced by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology.

The intended audience for this guide is anyone in the cancer research and medical community, industry, and academia that wishes to utilize TCIA to obtain Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) and related meta data for use in their research.

Questions about the use of this guide should be sent to TCIA's User Support Center at help@cancerimagingarchive.net.

Registering a New User

Logging in

Using the Home Page

Using the Portal

Using Online Help

Performing a Simple Search

Performing a Text Search

Performing an Advanced Search

Working with Saved Search Queries

Managing Saved Queries

Viewing a Query History

Editing Saved Queries

Search Results by Subject

Search Results Studies for Subject

Creating a Shared List

Searching a Shared List

Editing a Shared List

Managing the Data Basket

Download Manager

Viewing Submission Reports

Accrual Report

Image Submission Report

Annotation Submission Report

Using the Quality Control Tool

Generating a QC Status Report

Approving Image Deletions

Manually Deleting Image Series

Editing a Collection Description

Managing a Shared List