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Card: drop the bare viewer link, document browser visualization

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@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ DICOM series in the NCI Imaging Data Commons; it does not contain pixel data.**
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  Research Data Commons repository of publicly available cancer imaging data,
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  co-located with analysis tools in the cloud. To explore it interactively
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  instead, use the [IDC portal](https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/explore/).
 
 
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  To query IDC in plain language, point an AI assistant at its
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  [agent interfaces](https://learn.canceridc.dev/ai-assistants/agents) --
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  a hosted MCP server, an agent skill, and a REST API over the same metadata.
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  What lands on disk is DICOM; read it with [pydicom](https://pydicom.github.io/)
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  or [highdicom](https://highdicom.readthedocs.io/).
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- To look at a series before downloading it, get a viewer link for it. This picks
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- the right viewer for the modality -- OHIF for radiology, slim for microscopy:
 
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  ```python
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  print(client.get_viewer_URL(seriesInstanceUID=sel["SeriesInstanceUID"][0]))
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  ```
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  Query the catalog without downloading anything, using DuckDB:
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  ```sql
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  ## Links
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  - [IDC portal](https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/explore/) -- browse the data and build cohorts interactively
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- - [IDC viewer](https://viewer.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/) -- view images in the browser; get per-series links with `IDCClient.get_viewer_URL()`
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  - [IDC agent interfaces](https://learn.canceridc.dev/ai-assistants/agents) -- search IDC, size a cohort and get a download command by asking: hosted MCP server, agent skill, or REST API
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  - [IDC documentation](https://learn.canceridc.dev/)
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  - [`idc-index` Python package](https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons/idc-index) -- the download client (`pip install idc-index`)
 
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  Research Data Commons repository of publicly available cancer imaging data,
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  co-located with analysis tools in the cloud. To explore it interactively
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  instead, use the [IDC portal](https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/explore/).
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+ Without downloading anything, any image in IDC can be
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+ [viewed in the browser](https://learn.canceridc.dev/portal/visualization).
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  To query IDC in plain language, point an AI assistant at its
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  [agent interfaces](https://learn.canceridc.dev/ai-assistants/agents) --
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  a hosted MCP server, an agent skill, and a REST API over the same metadata.
 
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  What lands on disk is DICOM; read it with [pydicom](https://pydicom.github.io/)
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  or [highdicom](https://highdicom.readthedocs.io/).
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+ Every series in this catalog can also be looked at without downloading
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+ anything. IDC streams the pixels to a zero-footprint browser viewer, and
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+ `get_viewer_URL` builds a link to any series you have selected:
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  ```python
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  print(client.get_viewer_URL(seriesInstanceUID=sel["SeriesInstanceUID"][0]))
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  ```
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+ It picks the viewer that fits the data -- OHIF for radiology, slim for slide
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+ microscopy -- and opens the enclosing study with your series selected. Passing
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+ a segmentation, as above, brings it up overlaid on the images it segments.
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  Query the catalog without downloading anything, using DuckDB:
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  ```sql
 
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  ## Links
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  - [IDC portal](https://portal.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov/explore/) -- browse the data and build cohorts interactively
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+ - [Visualizing IDC images](https://learn.canceridc.dev/portal/visualization) -- how the browser viewers work; get a link to any series with `IDCClient.get_viewer_URL()`
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  - [IDC agent interfaces](https://learn.canceridc.dev/ai-assistants/agents) -- search IDC, size a cohort and get a download command by asking: hosted MCP server, agent skill, or REST API
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  - [IDC documentation](https://learn.canceridc.dev/)
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  - [`idc-index` Python package](https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons/idc-index) -- the download client (`pip install idc-index`)