Eliot Lawrence Siegel MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

To provide an update on the ongoing activities of the NCI's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid and plans for next phase projects as well as the National Cancer Institute's Imaging Archive

The caBIG Imaging Workspace has continued to develop its Middleware software including grid software to enable a Virtual PACS. The annotation and imaging mark-up project is also underway and will interface with the extensible imaging platform and reference software that will also be available and demonstrated at the RSNA. Additional work has been performed to map out ACRIN and DICOM terms into the NCI's common data elements and cancer data standards repository (caDSR). The NCIA has added remote visualization and remote mark-up to its functionality as well as the ability to create federated NCIA searches and has added additional public datasets to supplement the LIDC, RIDER, and virtual colonoscopy collections.

Next steps for the workspace include the development of algorithm validation tools with an emphasis on algorithms designed to detect change from one imaging study to another, query formulation tools designed to facilitate complex queries of image databases and practical demonstrations of grid and other interoperability with ACRIN and other organizations that are conducting clinical trials for cancer.

The caBIG imaging workspace and the NCIA continue to progress and serve as major resources for the advancement of cancer imaging informatics as well as informatics in general.

The NCI has made major strides in imaging informatics for cancer research and will continue to provide a leadership role in advancing interoperability of cancer images and related data.

Siegel, E, Update on the NCI's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Gride Imaging Workspace and the National Cancer Imaging Archive.  Radiological Society of North America 2007 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 25 - November 30, 2007 ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2007/5016798.html