Cancer Radiology Imaging Cohort Discovery (TCIA)

Discover and characterize public cancer imaging cohorts from The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA, National Cancer Institute) — collection, patient, study, and DICOM series-level metadata for building or scoping a radiology research cohort.

Scope: what this skill can and cannot do

Can: enumerate collections, patients, studies, and series; filter by modality/body part/manufacturer; pull DICOM series-level metadata (scanner, acquisition, license); estimate series download size; list individual DICOM instance (slice) UIDs.

Cannot: download or view actual pixel data, run segmentation/detection models, or interpret images. Every TCIA tool here returns metadata about what imaging exists — not the images themselves. If the user wants the actual pixels, tell them the DICOM download UI/API is a separate TCIA service (https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/) outside this tool set.