Overview

The tcia_utils package contains functions to simplify common tasks one might perform when interacting with The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) via Jupyter/Python. Learn more about TCIA and its open-access datasets at https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/. Please be sure to comply with the TCIA Data Usage Policy.

Installation

pip install tcia_utils

Usage

To import functions related to Wordpress, which holds metadata for TCIA datasets:

from tcia_utils import wordpress

To import functions related to the NBIA software, which holds TCIA's DICOM radiology data:

from tcia_utils import nbia

To import functions related to the PathDB software, which holds TCIA's histopathology data:

from tcia_utils import pathdb

To import functions related to Datacite, which holds information about citations and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for TCIA datasets:

from tcia_utils import datacite

Example notebooks demonstrating tcia_utils functionality can be found at https://github.com/kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks.