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