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TCIA (The Cancer Imaging Archive) Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardRwrite-gated

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Free tierFree. 'We do not charge a fee for sharing your data through TCIA except in rare circumstances where proposals are extremely large.'
unit mixed; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionper-object-cap: one zip per DICOM series (tens of MB each) — the archive is sharded by series, not by dataset. Retention: permanent, DOI per collection
EgressFree and anonymous. NBIA REST API serves DICOM series zips with no key; CORS open.
Identityinstitution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: proposals are extremely large.' Deposit is a months-long institutional process; read path is fast and stable. Not a drop-box by any reading. Read side is effectively unlimited and needs no
Limits
  • write-gated review, signed non-negotiable Data Submission Agreement, 'a few months' to complete source
per-object-cap: one zip per DICOM series (tens of MB each) — the archive is sharded by series, not by dataset. Retention: permanent, DOI per collection. Deposit is NOT self-serve: quarterly Advisory Group review, signed non-negotiable Data Submission Agreement, 'a few months' to complete.
Bindingwrite-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
Interfacerest rest
ToolingNBIA Data Retriever + documented REST API (services.cancerimagingarchive.net/nbia-api/services/v1/), plus the tcia-utils Python package. Deposit side has no API — it is a quarterly-reviewed proposal form.
Composes withRead side is effectively unlimited and needs no account, so the fetch workload scales independently of any deposit relationship. Deposits: one collection per approval, unlimited collections per institution in principle.
ReliabilityDeposit is a months-long institutional process; read path is fast and stable. Not a drop-box by any reading.
NotesFree. 'We do not charge a fee for sharing your data through TCIA except in rare circumstances where proposals are extremely large.'
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21www.cancerimagingarchive.net/primary-data/'We do not charge a fee', quarterly review, 'a few months', signed agreement required
2026-10-21services.cancerimagingarchive.net/nbia-api/services/v1/getCoprobe: GET -> 200, JSON array of collections
2026-10-21withheldprobe: GET .../v1/getImage?SeriesInstanceUID=1.3.6.1.4.1.14519.5.2.1.6279.6001.109002525524522225658609808059 -> 200, 49,111,902 bytes, body starts 504b0304 (real ZIP of DICOM)
Unknown or withheld values (5)
  • $.evidence[2].url private-url
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted