caBIG™ Overview caBIG™ is an information network that allows researchers, clinicians, and patients to share data and knowledge to accelerate the discovery of new diagnostics and therapeutics in order to improve patient outcomes. caBIG™ Vision Connect the cancer research community through a shareable, interoperable infrastructure Deploy and extend standard rules and a common language to more easily share information Build or adapt tools for collecting, analyzing, integrating and disseminating information associated with cancer research and care
The National Cancer Imaging Archive (NCIA) In Action: An
Introduction for Users A Tool Demonstration from caBIG Carl Jaffe,
MD NCI-Cancer Imaging Program Eliot Siegel, MD University of
Maryland School of Medicine VA Maryland Healthcare System March,
2008 Agenda and Goal 1.Overview and Introduction to NCIA 2.NCIA
Functionality 3.Resources and Next Steps The goal of this demo is
to introduce you to the capabilities and benefits of NCIA, a caBIG
tool that can easily be adopted, adapted to, or interfaced with.
caBIG Overview caBIG is an information network that allows
researchers, clinicians, and patients to share data and knowledge
to accelerate the discovery of new diagnostics and therapeutics in
order to improve patient outcomes. caBIG Vision Connect the cancer
research community through a shareable, interoperable
infrastructure Deploy and extend standard rules and a common
language to more easily share information Build or adapt tools for
collecting, analyzing, integrating and disseminating information
associated with cancer research and care Introduction to the
National Cancer Imaging Archive (NCIA) NCIA in the Research
Continuum The NCIA is a software suite that provides a means of
capturing, storing and sharing medical images. Clinical Research
Pathology Molecular Biology Imaging How NCIA Promotes Advances in
Imaging Related Research Challenges NCIA Provided Solutions NCIA is
optimized for diagnostic medical images, and has special software
for acquisition, storage, and retrieval Conventional databases do
not address imaging specific requirements and standards Images and
related data can be located and retrieved digitally Imaging data is
physically transported NCIA allows for a federation of cooperating
storage sites, which can be searched using a single query Medical
images are located in multiple repositories accessed separately via
different interfaces A free and open source imaging informatics
infrastructure that provides cost effective support for shared or
customizable databases Individualized solutions for secure storage
and retrieval of medical images are costly, time consuming, and
ineffective Using the NCIA: Who and Why? Target Users All
researchers who use images as part of their research The medical
imaging community The medical software development industry Core
Functions Secure and de-identified acquisition of medical images
from clinical imaging modalities or Picture Archiving and
Communication Systems (PACS) Ability to search studies utilizing
specified imaging modalities and parameters Role based retrieval of
specified imaging studies, imaging series, or individual images
Ability to save a recurring query, as well as measurements made on
selected images Ability to safely resume an interrupted download
How does the NCIA fit within a typical users workflow? Trial
findings are shared between sites via disparate means (i.e.
spreadsheet, table, etc.) Current Workflow NCIA Supported Workflow
Coordinating Centers (CC) approve Participating Centers (PC) for
trial work Physical transportation of trial data from CC to PC PCs
query, view, and measure trial images with their own systems Image
measurements made by the PCs are saved in the NCIA, and are readily
available to all sites PCs access data via a web interface, and
perform image analysis uniformly CC grants PC permission to view
image data in the NCIA Coordinating Centers (CC) approve
Participating Centers (PC) for trial work Use Case:
Multi-institution trial of lung cancer response to drug therapy
Demonstration of the National Cancer Imaging Archive (NCIA) NCIA
Demo: Home Page NCIA Demo: Using the Search Criteria NCIA Demo:
Search Results / Selecting Images for Download NCIA Demo: Image
Visualization NCIA Demo: Accessing a Local DICOM Viewer (i.e.
OSIRIX) A Quick Review: Key Functions and Benefits of the NCIA
Scheduled Adopters: VA Maryland Healthcare System Single Point of
Access to Images for: Development and validation of analytical
software for lesion detection and classification Accelerated
diagnostic imaging decision making Quantitative imaging assessment
of drug response Clinical trial collaboration and coordination
Academic research with medical images Teaching 2. Web-based
Visualization: Visualization of DICOM images and related data based
on NCIA query results Ability to download images to any medical
image viewer using a shopping cart method Tool Features Under
Development Free and open source tools for more sophisticated
central or distributed visualization of DICOM images Ability to
have multiple readers annotate and mark-up medical images using
Annotations & Imaging Markup (AIM) format Ability to search
databases for image features based on human or machine analysis A
Glance at the Underlying Technology Tool Platform: Web / remote
application with data uploads and downloads through a web interface
Key Prerequisites (for a local installation): System requirements:
Minimal requirements include a Windows or Linux operating system
with sufficient hard drive capacity and 3GB of RAM. IT Support:
Database administrators with experience in installing and
supporting web based applications. End-User Readiness: Staff
experienced in extracting images from imaging modalities or PACS,
with the connectivity and ability to submit them to the field
center. Resources and Next Steps Two Pathways: Adopt or Adapt
Interested organizations are not required to adopt this caBIG
application to connect with caBIG There are other ways to share
data and use common data elements and controlled vocabularies by
adapting current or non-caBIG applications The Next Step: Accessing
Online Resources for NCIA RESOURCEADDRESSDESCRIPTION NCIA
OnlineHome page of the NCIA portal Tool Landing Page
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/NCIA Tool summary available on the
caBIG TM Website NCI Center for Bioinformatics Applications Support
(and Access to Demo Passwords and Logins)address for the NCI CBIIT
Help Desk Software Development Project Site
https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/projects/ncia/ Online software
development repository for NCI CBIIT NCIA Listserv Signup Signup
page on list.nih.gov for NCIA Announcements caBIG Imaging Community
Listserv Signup Signup page on list.nih.gov for the caBIG TM
Imaging Community NCIA: Next Steps Release Information Available
Now: Submission of images to the NCI Contact: Available Now: NCI
CBIIT support for local installation of NCIA Contact: Anand Basu,
Applications Director, NCI CBIIT Development Schedule The NCIA will
have periodic releases to provide regular feature enhancements NCI
CBIIT plans to provide ongoing production level support Support
Available Technical support is available via NCI CBIIT Contact:
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