> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://learn.canceridc.dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://learn.canceridc.dev/idc-key-pointers.md).

# Key pointers

## Resources maintained by the IDC team

* **Portal:** <https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov>
* Discourse (community forum): <https://discourse.canceridc.dev/>
* Documentation: <https://learn.canceridc.dev/>
* GitHub organization: <https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons>
* Tutorials: <https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons/IDC-Tutorials/tree/master/notebooks/getting_started>
* [Publications](/publications.md)

## Other locations for accessing public imaging data

If you did not find the images you need in IDC, you can consider the following resources:

* [The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)](https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/): while most of the public DICOM collections from TCIA are available in IDC, we do not replicate limited access TCIA collections
* [Open-Access Medical Imaging Repositories](https://www.aylward.org/notes/open-access-medical-image-repositories): list curated by Stephen Aylward
* [Finding Medical Images](https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/medicalimages): list curated by New York University Health Sciences Library