The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository

The National Institutes of Health have placed significant emphasis on sharing of research data to support secondary research. Investigators have been encouraged to publish their clinical and imaging data as part of fulfilling their grant obligations. Realizing it was not sufficient to merely ask investigators to publish their collection of imaging and clinical data, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) created the open source National Biomedical Image Archive software package as a mechanism for centralized hosting of cancer related imaging. NCI has contracted with Washington University in Saint Louis to create The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)-an open-source, open-access information resource to support…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  Award: HHSN261200800001E
• RS
  Radiological Society of North America
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: Contract No. HHSN261200800001E, HHSN261200800001E
• NC
  National Cancer Institute

  Awards: No. HHSN261200800001E, Contract No. HHSN261200800001E