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Datasets/naf_prostate

NaF PROSTATE

OpenMachine-extracted
NCI Imaging Data Commons / The Cancer Imaging ArchiveAvailable from IDC

This is a collection of F-18 NaF positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) images in patients with prostate cancer, with suspected or known bone involvement. Please see the NaF PROSTATE page to learn more about the images and to obtain any supporting metadata for this collection.

Can it answer your research question?

0 of 6 supported
  • Overall survival

    Not measured

    Clinical field completeness has not been measured for this record.

  • Progression or recurrence

    Not measured

    Clinical field completeness has not been measured for this record.

  • Treatment response

    Not measured

    Clinical field completeness has not been measured for this record.

  • Which drug was given

    Not measured

    Clinical field completeness has not been measured for this record.

  • Stage-adjusted modelling

    Not measured

    Clinical field completeness has not been measured for this record.

  • Analysis by race or ethnicity

    Not measured

    Clinical field completeness has not been measured for this record.

Judged from the repository’s own field completeness (thresholds). “Not measured” means we have not probed that field for this record, not that the data lack it.

At a glance

Every percentage is the repository’s own record of what is filled in
CasesAPI
9
Measurement types
1
Follow-up
None recorded
no survival endpoint
Treatment response
Unknown

SubjectCALC

Prostate

As filed by the repository

Prostate CancerProstate

Who is in the cohort

The repository’s harmonized records carry no demographics for this dataset.

What was measured, and on how many

1 measurement type, 1 covering the whole cohort.

  • DICOM medical imaging9 of 9 · 100%
Platform, files and data levels
AssayPlatformFilesLevels
DICOM medical imagingAPI--DICOM series

Access

OpenDownload without an account.API

Public DICOM download from the IDC portal, its API, or the idc-index Python package; no account required for public collections.

License
Per-collection license, typically CC BY 3.0/4.0 or CC BY-NC
Citation requirement
Cite the collection DOI and the IDC/TCIA data-citation guidance.

What it is good for

Written and checked by a reviewer, not generated from metadata.

No reviewed research questions yet. The measurements and field completeness above are machine-extracted and still useful for judging fit.

What it cannot tell you

1 blocking

Written by a reviewer against the source, not inferred from what is missing.

BlockingMissing dataAPI

IDC serves no clinical table for this collection, so nothing about outcome, stage, treatment or demographics can be read from the repository. Any such variable would have to come from the originating trial or publication.

Affects: survival; treatment response; stage-adjusted modelling; analysis by race or ethnicity

Who has used it

Articles that analyzed these data, counted separately from articles that only cited the paper. Only the first counts as reuse.

Analyzed the dataCALC
-
could not be measured for this dataset
Declared using it
-
named in a data availability statement
Cited the paper
-
attention to the publication, not reuse of the data
Against expectation
Not assessed
Reuse cannot be traced for this dataset
No accession is specific enough to search the literature for, so we cannot tell how often these data have been reused. That is a limit of the measurement, not a finding about the dataset. It is also a barrier in itself: a researcher cannot find prior work to build on.
Reuse assessment
  • Not assessed: this dataset has no accession specific enough for citation-based reuse tracing, so a shortfall cannot be measured.

Compared against rgi-huber-v2. See Methods for the model.

Articles that analyzed the data

Not searchable. See the note above.

Community examples

Share your example

Analyses someone ran on these data end to end, each with a receipt recording when it ran, against which packages and for how long.

Nobody has shared an analysis of this dataset yet. The examples on other datasets cover the common patterns and can be adapted - and if you adapt one, it belongs here.

Start here

Starter code generated from this record’s own identifiers, then the access steps.

Get the data in code

IDC: pull the DICOM collection with idc-indexpython

pip install idc-index. Images are public; the package uses s5cmd under the hood.

from idc_index import IDCClient

COLLECTION = "naf_prostate"
client = IDCClient()

series = client.index[client.index["collection_id"] == COLLECTION]   # one row per DICOM series
print(len(series), "series,", series["PatientID"].nunique(), "patients,",
      round(series["series_size_MB"].sum() / 1024, 1), "GB")
print(series["Modality"].value_counts().to_dict())

# Everything above is an index lookup and costs nothing. Uncomment to pull the pixels;
# the client refuses up front if the disk cannot hold them.
# client.download_from_selection(collection_id=COLLECTION, downloadDir="./naf_prostate")
This page as data: limitations firstbash
curl -s https://cd2s.vercel.app/data/datasets/idc-naf-prostate.json | python3 -c '
import json, sys
r = json.load(sys.stdin)
for l in r["limitations"]:
    print(l["severity"].upper(), "-", l["statement"][:120])
print("survival endpoint:", r["longitudinal"]["has_survival_endpoint"], "| treatment response:", r["longitudinal"]["has_treatment_response"])'

Access steps

  1. 1
    Open the collection in the IDC portalFor people5 minutes

    Browse the series before downloading; imaging collections can be very large.

    https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/explore/?collection_id=naf_prostate

    Generated from repository policy. Check the linked policy before downloading.

  2. 2
    Read the collection's own licenceFor people5 minutes

    Per-collection license, typically CC BY 3.0/4.0 or CC BY-NC. IDC licences differ by collection.

    https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/data-usage-policies-and-restrictions/

    Generated from repository policy. Check the linked policy before downloading.

  3. 3
    Download with idc-indexFor peoplehours for a full collection

    The package resolves the collection to its buckets and pulls selected data.

    pip install idc-index
    python - <<'PY'
    from idc_index import IDCClient
    IDCClient().download_from_selection(collection_id="naf_prostate", downloadDir=".")
    PY
    https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons/idc-index

    Generated from repository policy. Check the linked policy before downloading.

  4. 4
    List the series before pulling pixelsFor agents

    List modality and size first so an agent can choose what to fetch.

    python - <<'PY'
    from idc_index import IDCClient
    i = IDCClient().index
    s = i[i["collection_id"] == "naf_prostate"]
    print(len(s), "series", s["PatientID"].nunique(), "patients",
          round(s["series_size_MB"].sum() / 1024, 1), "GB")
    print(s["Modality"].value_counts().to_dict())
    PY
    https://learn.canceridc.dev/

    Generated from repository policy. Check the linked policy before downloading.

Provenance

All of it, and more, is in this record’s JSON.

Identifiers

Versions and verification

Metadata retrieved
18 Sept 2026
Review status
Machine-extracted
Data generation funding
Role not established

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