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TCIApathfinder is a wrapper for The Cancer Imaging Archive’s REST API v3. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) hosts de-identified medical images of cancer available for public download, as well as rich metadata for each image series. TCIA provides a REST API for programmatic access to the data. This package provides simple functions to access each API endpoint. For more information about TCIA, see TCIA’s website.
TCIApathfinder is on CRAN.
From within R:
install.packages("TCIApathfinder")
From GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
::install_github("pamelarussell/TCIApathfinder") devtools
An API key is not needed to access public collections on TCIA but it could be useful for private collections. To obtain and correctly store your API key:
Request a key from TCIA by following the instructions here.
Create a text file in your home directory (~/
)
called .Renviron
.
Create the contents of the .Renviron
file like this,
making sure the last line in the file is empty. Otherwise, R will
silently fail to load the file.
TCIA_API_KEY=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
Restart R. .Renviron
is only processed at the
beginning of an R session.
Detailed vignettes on package usage and downstream image analysis can
be viewed on CRAN or
from within an R session with
browseVignettes("TCIApathfinder")
.
From within R:
citation("TCIApathfinder")
TCIApathfinder: An R Client for the Cancer Imaging Archive REST API. Pamela Russell, Kelly Fountain, Dulcy Wolverton and Debashis Ghosh. Cancer Res August 1 2018 (78) (15) 4424-4426; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-0678.
These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.