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

Authors: Kenneth Clark, Bruce Vendt, Kirk Smith, John Freymann, Justin Kirby, Paul Koppel, Stephen Moore, Stanley Phillips, David Maffitt, Michael Pringle, Lawrence Tarbox, Fred Prior

Published in: Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine | Issue 6/2013

Abstract

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 research, development, and educational initiatives utilizing advanced medical imaging of cancer. In its first year of operation, TCIA accumulated 23 collections (3.3 million images). Operating and maintaining a high-availability image archive is a complex challenge involving varied archive-specific resources and driven by the needs of both image submitters and image consumers. Quality archives of any type (traditional library, PubMed, refereed journals) require management and customer service. This paper describes the management tasks and user support model for TCIA.

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Title: The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository
Authors: Kenneth Clark
Bruce Vendt
Kirk Smith
John Freymann
Justin Kirby
Paul Koppel
Stephen Moore
Stanley Phillips
David Maffitt
Michael Pringle
Lawrence Tarbox
Fred Prior
Publication date: 01-12-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 2948-2925
Electronic ISSN: 2948-2933
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7

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