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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be excellent if we could improve users' ability to query/download datasets from The Cancer Imaging Archive and load them in MONAI. Currently there are a few old examples of doing this in MONAI: https://github.com/search?q=org%3AProject-MONAI%20tcia&type=code. However, there is now a "tcia_utils" PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/tcia-utils/ and many examples of using it at https://github.com/kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks that are being updated regularly.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would probably make sense to leverage port any TCIA-related code that lives in the MONAI repo over to https://github.com/kirbyju/tcia_utils and investigate whether there is anything else should be implemented in tcia_utils to make it easy to prep data for MONAI.
https://github.com/kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks/blob/main/TCIA_REST_API_Downloads.ipynb provides several simple examples showing different use cases for downloading DICOM radiology data.
I think it would also be valuable to ensure that the DICOM SEG and RTSTRUCT segmentation data on TCIA can be easily loaded in MONAI. https://github.com/kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks/blob/main/TCIA_Segmentations.ipynb has examples related to this.
I am also working on a new module that will be useful for using our newest API to extract supporting data that can be used for classification tasks (e.g. clinical demographics/outcomes, genomic and proteomic subtypes) and would love your input on how to make that most useful.
Additional context
This was discussed in the 1/26/24 MONAI developers meeting and I'm submitting this issue at the suggestion of @aylward and @ericspod.
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