Title :
TCIA: An information resource to enable open science
Author :
Prior, Fred W. ; Clark, Kas ; Commean, Paul ; Freymann, John ; Jaffe, Carl ; Kirby, Justin ; Moore, Steven ; Smith, K. ; Tarbox, Lawrence ; Vendt, Bruce ; Marquez, Guillermo
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Med., Mallinckrodt Inst. of Radiol., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
Reusable, publicly available data is a pillar of open science. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is an open image archive service supporting cancer research. TCIA collects, de-identifies, curates and manages rich collections of oncology image data. Image data sets have been contributed by 28 institutions and additional image collections are underway. Since June of 2011, more than 2,000 users have registered to search and access data from this freely available resource. TCIA encourages and supports cancer-related open science communities by hosting and managing the image archive, providing project wiki space and searchable metadata repositories. The success of TCIA is measured by the number of active research projects it enables (>40) and the number of scientific publications and presentations that are produced using data from TCIA collections (39).
Keywords :
Web sites; cancer; document image processing; information retrieval systems; medical information systems; meta data; visual databases; TCIA collections; The Cancer Imaging Archive; active research project; cancer research; cancer-related open science communities; image archive hosting; image archive managing; information resource; oncology image data collection; oncology image data curation; oncology image data de-identification; open image archive service; project wiki space; publicly available data; scientific publication; searchable metadata repositories; Biomedical imaging; Cancer; Educational institutions; Information services; Lungs; Radiology;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Osaka
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609742
