TCIA (The Cancer Imaging Archive) Download Client for Python

This Python package uses the official TCIA REST API to enable downloads from www.cancerimagingarchive.net from within Python scripts and Jupyter Notebooks.

The documentation can be found at https://moritzschwyzer.github.io/tciaclient/. This PyPI/Conda package is based on source code of the TCIA-API-SDK https://github.com/TCIA-Community/TCIA-API-SDK.

Install

pip install tciaclient

How to use

Step 1: Import the TCIAClient from the tciaclient.core package.

from tciaclient.core import TCIAClient

Step 2: Create an instance of the TCIAClient.

tc = TCIAClient()

Step 3: Specify the collection you want to download (find the name on https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/Collections).

collection_name = "NSCLC-Radiomics"

Step 4: Get the series information of the chosen collection. In this example, we specify that we only want series that are CT scans.

series = tc.get_series(collection=collection_name, modality="CT")

Step 5: Download the dataset to the specified path.

download_path = "./tcia-downloads"
for i, s in enumerate(series):
    print(i)
    tc.get_image(seriesInstanceUid = s["SeriesInstanceUID"],
        downloadPath = download_path, zipFileName = str(i).zfill(3)+"-"+collection_name+".zip")

TCIA Data Usage Policies and Restrictions

Information regarding data usage policies and restrictions can be found on https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/Data+Usage+Policies+and+Restrictions