RESOURCES

Informatics Support

National Cancer Imaging Archive (NCIA)
ncia.nci.nih.gov
The in vivo image repository, which is a public service of the National Cancer Institute, provides the cancer research community, industry, and academia with access to image archives that can be used for many purposes including the potential to assist in the development and validation of analytical software tools supporting: lesion detection and classification software, accelerated diagnostic imaging decision, and quantitative imaging assessment of drug response. The repository provides access to imaging resources that will improve the use of imaging in today's cancer research and practice by: increasing the efficiency and reproducibility of imaging cancer detection and diagnosis, leveraging imaging to provide an objective assessment of therapeutic response, and ultimately enabling the development of imaging resources that will lead to improved clinical decision support.

RIDER Database Resource
http://ncia.nci.nih.gov/ncia/collections/
A collection of lung cancer patient studies, each case consisting of full-chest DICOM CT’s exams at multiple sequential time-points during the course of the patient’s therapy. The collection is intended as a resource for developing and testing software to accurately monitor tumor volumetric change analysis. Retrieval from the collection is indexed to respond to a variety of DICOM-based queries.

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National Cancer Institute caBIG
In Vivo Imaging Workspace
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Imaging
Learn more about the National Cancer Institute’s caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) and the In Vivo Imaging Workspace; the opportunity for participation in this workspace remains open.

RSNA MIRC
Medical Imaging Resource Center
www.rsna.org/mirc
Radiology generates an ever-growing volume of information. The benefits of this information for education and research increase greatly when it can be shared. The RSNA MIRC project provides tools for that purpose. MIRC offers: a simple way to identify, index and retrieve images, teaching files and other radiology information; the ability to search multiple imaging libraries as if they were a single library organized by medically important categories; an authoring tool that makes it easy to create radiology teaching files and other electronic documents in flexible formats with a common underlying structure; and tools to enable sites to manage and exchange images and research data sets for imaging clinical trials.

Consensus Recommendation for Acquisition of Dynamic Contrasted-Enhanced MRI Data in Oncology
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To establish minimum requirements for standardized data acquisition for oncologic applications of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) to allow integration of data from different institutions and comparison of various approaches for data analysis.