# Key pointers

## Resources maintained by the IDC team

* **Portal:** [https://imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov](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](https://learn.canceridc.dev/publications)

## 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
* [Medical Image Repositories](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/about-us/support-services/library/resources-z/medical-image-repositories): list curated by University College London&#x20;
* [Finding Medical Images](https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/medicalimages): list curated by New York Univestity Health Sciences Library