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title: "Imaging Data Commons - Air Market"
description: "You need real medical scans for a study or to train a model, and hunting through a public archive is slow. This helps you find what is in the NCI Imaging Data Commons, pull the images down, and check…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/imaging-data-commons"
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[Air Market](/) / [Data & Analytics](/category/data) / Imaging Data Commons

Skill by [K-Dense](/@k-dense-ai)

# Imaging Data Commons

Find and pull public cancer imaging data without an account

## What this does

You need real medical scans for a study or to train a model, and hunting through a public archive is slow. This helps you find what is in the NCI Imaging Data Commons, pull the images down, and check the license before you use them. No sign-up or login needed. Reach for it when you want cancer imaging or pathology data and don't know where to start.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Search cancer imaging collections
- Download CT, MR or PET scans
- Check what a dataset's license allows

## Information

**Imaging Data Commons at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [K-Dense](/@k-dense-ai) |
| Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.5 |
| Size | 225 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills](https://github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/tree/d661d27ef4ddad5b9287bdd84887ace27e2320b8/skills/imaging-data-commons) |
| GitHub stars | 34,239 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Imaging Data Commons and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Imaging Data Commons's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | d661d27ef4ddad5b9287bdd84887ace27e2320b8 |
| Content hash | df7e25421a02201bea5f292a1b6b2e8dd8122b47db2822d4ad2cd9dbd216c9dd |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/blob/d661d27ef4ddad5b9287bdd84887ace27e2320b8/skills/imaging-data-commons/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Imaging Data Commons](/security/imaging-data-commons)

## About Imaging Data Commons

This covers querying and downloading public cancer imaging data from the NCI Imaging Data Commons. It handles questions about what collections exist, what is in the cancer imaging datasets, and how to get at the DICOM data.

Radiology scans such as CT, MR and PET are in scope, as are pathology datasets used for AI training. Alongside the data itself you can run metadata queries, visualize what you find, and check licences.

It applies to questions in this area whether or not you name IDC yourself, and it needs no authentication.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/bigquery_guide.md - reference
- references/cli_guide.md - reference
- references/clinical_data_guide.md - reference
- references/cloud_storage_guide.md - reference
- references/dicomweb_guide.md - reference
- references/digital_pathology_guide.md - reference
- references/index_tables_guide.md - reference
- references/licensing_and_citation.md - reference
- references/mcp_guide.md - reference
- references/parquet_access_guide.md - reference
- references/rest_api_guide.md - reference
- references/sql_patterns.md - reference
- references/use_cases.md - reference
- scripts/check_version.py - script

## Questions

### Is Imaging Data Commons safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Imaging Data Commons and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit d661d27ef4dd, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/imaging-data-commons.

### How do I install Imaging Data Commons?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/imaging-data-commons on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/tree/d661d27ef4ddad5b9287bdd84887ace27e2320b8/skills/imaging-data-commons. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Data & Analytics listings](/category/data)
- [Everything by K-Dense](/@k-dense-ai)

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