Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado.
Department of Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Cancer Res. 2018 Aug 1;78(15):4424-4426. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-0678. Epub 2018 Jun 5.
The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) hosts publicly available deidentified medical images of cancer from over 25 body sites and over 30,000 patients. Over 400 published studies have utilized freely available TCIA images. Images and metadata are available for download through a web interface or a REST API. Here, we present TCIApathfinder, an R client for the TCIA REST API. TCIApathfinder wraps API access in user-friendly R functions that can be called interactively within an R session or easily incorporated into scripts. Functions are provided to explore the contents of the large database and to download image files. TCIApathfinder provides easy access to TCIA resources in the highly popular R programming environment. TCIApathfinder is freely available under the MIT license as a package on CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TCIApathfinder/index.html) and from https://github.com/pamelarussell/TCIApathfinder These findings present a new tool, TCIApathfinder, the first client for The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) for use in the highly popular R computing environment, that will dramatically lower the barrier of access to the valuable tools in TCIA. .
癌症影像档案（TCIA） 托管了来自超过 25 个身体部位和超过 30000 名患者的公开可用的去识别化的癌症医学图像。超过 400 项已发表的研究已经利用了 TCIA 提供的免费可用图像。图像和元数据可通过网络界面或 REST API 下载。在这里，我们展示了 TCIApathfinder，这是一个用于 TCIA REST API 的 R 客户端。TCIApathfinder 将 API 访问封装在用户友好的 R 函数中，可以在 R 会话中交互式调用，也可以轻松集成到脚本中。函数用于探索大型数据库的内容并下载图像文件。TCIApathfinder 在非常流行的 R 编程环境中提供了对 TCIA 资源的轻松访问。TCIApathfinder 作为 CRAN（https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TCIApathfinder/index.html）上的一个包，以及从 https://github.com/pamelarussell/TCIApathfinder 上，以 MIT 许可证的形式免费提供。这些发现提出了一个新工具，TCIApathfinder，它是用于高度流行的 R 计算环境的第一个 TCIA（癌症影像档案）客户端，它将大大降低访问 TCIA 中有价值工具的门槛。
