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X-ray (computed radiography) CT MRI PET Uterus

TCGA-UCEC

The Cancer Genome Atlas Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma Collection

Routine clinical CT, MRI, PET and radiographs of 65 women with endometrial carcinoma from three US sites, matched by patient id to the TCGA clinical, pathology and genomic data in the GDC, for radiogenomic research.

Overview

TCGA-UCEC is the radiology part of The Cancer Genome Atlas uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma project. The Cancer Imaging Archive hosts clinical CT, MRI, PET and radiographs of TCGA patients, while their clinical, pathology and genomic data sit in the NCI Genomic Data Commons. Both use the same TCGA patient id, so imaging features can be linked to tumor genotype and patient outcome. The first version appeared in 2015, and version 4 followed in 2020.

Composition

Version 4 holds 65 patients, all women, with 226 studies, 912 DICOM series and 77,214 images (37.85 GB). Counted from the open TCIA series metadata, every patient has CT, 8 have MRI, 5 have PET and one has computed radiographs. Age at the earliest archived study ranges from 30 to 90 years, with a median of 64, for the 64 patients whose first study records an age. Most patients have repeated imaging: 41 of the 65 have more than one study. The collection page also offers a snapshot of the TCGA clinical data from January 2016, plus the TCGA case forms that explain its fields.

Acquisition

Images come from routine care rather than a research protocol, contributed by Mayo Clinic, Washington University in St. Louis and MD Anderson Cancer Center. Scanners are from Siemens, GE, Toshiba and Philips, and the radiographs from a Fujifilm system. CT mostly covers the abdomen and pelvis, or the chest, abdomen and pelvis. The MRI studies cover the pelvis with T1-weighted and T2-weighted series and dynamic gadolinium-enhanced acquisitions, and PET is FDG PET/CT of the torso. The baseline studies of each case were acquired before surgery. DICOM dates are shifted by a random per-site offset, which keeps intervals between studies intact.

Annotations

The collection itself contains no image labels. Segmentations and reader annotations made later by other groups are published as separate analysis datasets.

Known limitations

  • Scanner types, protocols and series naming vary widely, and no harmonized sequence labels are provided.
  • Only 65 of the TCGA endometrial cancer patients have imaging, so the imaged subset may not represent the full TCGA cohort.
  • MRI and PET exist for few patients, so most multimodal analyses are limited to CT.
  • TCIA and TCGA use different date conventions that are not reconciled.
  • Some PET series of three patients have no manufacturer value.

Cohort

Aggregate numbers from the sources below. Bars are relative to the 65 subjects.

Sex

  • Female 65 100%

Age

mean 62.9± 10.7 · range 30 to 90
0
10
20
22
30-3940-4950-5960-6970-7980-8990-99

Modality

subjects

  • CT 65 100%
  • MRI 8 12%
  • PET 5 8%
  • X-ray (computed radiography) 1 2%

Scanner vendor

subjects

  • Siemens Healthineers 44 68%
  • GE HealthCare 36 55%
  • Canon Medical 6 9%
  • Philips 4 6%

License and access

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Access
Open download

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DICOM images via the TCIA Data Retriever. Clinical, genomic and histopathology data of the same patients are in the NCI Genomic Data Commons; a clinical snapshot is an open download from the collection page.

Access page

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Older version of CC BY. Use, share and adapt the data for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you credit the creators.

TCIA lists the images under CC BY 3.0. Users must also follow the TCIA Data Usage Policy, which says users must "Not use the requested datasets, either alone or in concert with any other information, to identify or contact individual participants" and must cite the dataset DOI (https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/data-usage-policies-and-restrictions/). Publications are asked to acknowledge the TCGA Research Network.

Original license text Version read: 3.0 Checked 2026-10-07

What you can do

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes

What you can share

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes

What you must do

  • Yes
  • Share alike No
  • No
  • No
  • Manuscript review No
  • Release code No
  • Return results No
  • Delete after use No

Limits

  • No
  • Location limits No

Citation

Erickson BJ, Mutch D, Lippmann L, Jarosz R. (2016). The Cancer Genome Atlas Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma Collection (TCGA-UCEC) (Version 4) [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/K9/TCIA.2016.GKJ0ZWAC

All numbers

Every number on this page, as stored in stats.csv, with its source.

MeasureBreakdownValueSource
Subjectstotal 65tcia-tcga-ucec
Data Access table
Studiestotal 226tcia-tcga-ucec
Data Access table
Scanstotal
DICOM series
912tcia-tcga-ucec
Data Access table
Imagestotal
DICOM images (slices)
77,214tcia-tcga-ucec
Data Access table
Subjectsmodality=CT 65tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Subjectsmodality=MR 8tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Subjectsmodality=PT 5tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Subjectsmodality=CR 1tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Studiesmodality=CT
distinct StudyInstanceUID with at least one series of this modality
217tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Studiesmodality=MR
distinct StudyInstanceUID with at least one series of this modality
8tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Studiesmodality=PT
distinct StudyInstanceUID with at least one series of this modality
11tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Studiesmodality=CR
distinct StudyInstanceUID with at least one series of this modality
1tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Scansmodality=CT
DICOM series
764tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Scansmodality=MR
DICOM series
108tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Scansmodality=PT
DICOM series
37tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Scansmodality=CR
DICOM series
3tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Modality
Subjectsvendor=siemens
SIEMENS and SIEMENS NM; subjects with at least one series from this vendor
44tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Manufacturer
Subjectsvendor=ge
subjects with at least one series from this vendor
36tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Manufacturer
Subjectsvendor=canon
Toshiba; subjects with at least one series from this vendor
6tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Manufacturer
Subjectsvendor=philips
subjects with at least one series from this vendor
4tcia-tcga-ucec-series
Manufacturer
Subjectssex=female 65tcia-tcga-ucec-patients
PatientSex
Subjectsage=30-39
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
1tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Subjectsage=40-49
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
6tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Subjectsage=50-59
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
16tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Subjectsage=60-69
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
22tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Subjectsage=70-79
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
17tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Subjectsage=80-89
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
1tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Subjectsage=90-99
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out; recorded as 090Y
1tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Mean agetotal
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
62.9tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Age SDtotal
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
10.7tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Median agetotal
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
64tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Minimum agetotal
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
30tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge
Maximum agetotal
age at the earliest archived study; 64 of 65 subjects, one subject whose earliest study has no PatientAge is left out
90tcia-tcga-ucec-studies
PatientAge

Sources

The keys used in the table above.