We are happy to announce availability of DICOMweb interface for accessing IDC data!
DICOMweb is the DICOM Standard for web-based medical imaging, providing a set of RESTful services for search and retrieval of DICOM objects. Since DICOMweb is implemented in a variety of open-source and commercial tools, you can more easily integrate those directly with the data available from IDC. This interface is particularly valuable for developing digital pathology analysis workflows, as it enables access to the individual tiles of the slide pyramid at specific resolutions, without having to download the entire pyramid.
To learn more check out:
- new documentation article describing details of DICOMweb endpoints maintained by IDC
- new tutorial demonstrating how to use DICOMweb interface for working with digital pathology data
IDC team would like to acknowledge the continuing partnership of Google Healthcare, and especially Vivian Neilley, in working together to deliver this capability to the IDC user community!
Depending on your requirements and use case, you can now choose among various approaches for accessing data from IDC, from efficient bulk download of terabytes of data to highly granular access to individual metadata attributes and image tiles, using Python API, S3 API, REST API, or command-line interface. All of those are covered in this newly revised section of IDC documentation!