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. 2013:2013:1282-5.
doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609742.

TCIA: An information resource to enable open science

Fred W Prior, Ken Clark, Paul Commean, John Freymann, Carl Jaffe, Justin Kirby, Stephen Moore, Kirk Smith, Lawrence Tarbox, Bruce Vendt, Guillermo Marquez

TCIA: An information resource to enable open science

Fred W Prior et al. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013.

Abstract

Reusable, publicly available data is a pillar of open science. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is an open image archive service supporting cancer research. TCIA collects, de-identifies, curates and manages rich collections of oncology image data. Image data sets have been contributed by 28 institutions and additional image collections are underway. Since June of 2011, more than 2,000 users have registered to search and access data from this freely available resource. TCIA encourages and supports cancer-related open science communities by hosting and managing the image archive, providing project wiki space and searchable metadata repositories. The success of TCIA is measured by the number of active research projects it enables (>40) and the number of scientific publications and presentations that are produced using data from TCIA collections (39).

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TCIA collects multiple types of de-identified data documenting supported research projects and completed clinical trials, and makes these data available to enable ongoing research.
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