Title
The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7
J. Digital Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
TCIA,NBIA,Cancer imaging,Image archive,Biomedical image analysis,Cancer detection
Publication,Data science,World Wide Web,Public information,Customer service,Medical imaging,Computer science,Radiology information systems,Secondary research,Health informatics,Program evaluation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
6
1618-727X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
177
7.01
6
Authors
12
Search Limit
100177
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kenneth W. Clark118813.98
Bruce A. Vendt21797.67
Kirk Smith31777.01
John B. Freymann41949.06
Justin S. Kirby51949.74
Paul Koppel61859.21
Stephen M. Moore719314.91
Stanley R. Phillips81808.51
David R. Maffitt918411.04
Michael Pringle101807.56
Lawrence Tarbox111828.28
Fred Prior1255033.52