[NEW REPOSITORY REQUEST] - The Cancer Imaging Archive

[kirbyju]

What's the name and URL of the repository?
The Cancer Imaging Archive - https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/

Does the repository support DOIs? If so, please provide one or more DOIs
Yes, you can get a full list of the ~300 datasets we host currently using https://github.com/kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks/blob/main/TCIA_DataCite_Queries.ipynb but https://doi.org/10.7937/GWSP-WH72 is an example.

Are you interested in implementing support for this repository in Datahugger
Depends on how complicated it is. I have extensive experience with our APIs and wrote a PyPI package for working with them (https://pypi.org/project/tcia-utils/) but am also pretty busy so would love some assistance from someone who knows this project. You can download things directly from our APIs but we also provide provide "download manager" tools as a more robust solution for handling larger transfers (IBM Aspera for histopathology images and a homegrown tool called NBIA Data Retriever for radiology images). Not sure if it's best to just handle downloading the input manifest files for the download managers through data hugger or if you think it makes sense to download the real data.

We offer more advanced search functionality but I think our most prominent use case is people who just want to download the entirety of a given dataset, and I think your tool could be a really useful way to let researchers include really simple instructions to do that in their publications! Looking forward to hearing back.