caBIG® stands for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid®. caBIG® is an information network enabling all constituencies in the cancer community – researchers, physicians, and patients – to share data and knowledge. The components of caBIG® are widely applicable beyond cancer as well. The mission of caBIG® is to develop a truly collaborative information network that accelerates the discovery of new approaches for the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer, ultimately improving patient outcomes. caBIG® has launched multiple informatics projects involving a broad spectrum of the imaging community. These projects are designed to address pressing challenges in the imaging community including lowering the barrier to participation by radiologists in clinical trials, controlled vocabularies and ontologies, standards for annotation and mark-ups, uniform protocols in research, grid computing, change detection and computer-aided detection. Of the many caBIG® tool bundles, five of the Imaging tools as well as the Clinical Trials suite will be showcased in an interactive setting. The developers of these free and open source tools will be on hand to give demonstrations and answer questions. In addition, caBIG® Imaging program leadership will be available to discuss instances of existing utilization of caBIG® Imaging and CTMS products as well as opportunities for attendees to utilize caBIG® Imaging and CTMS products.

National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) Imaging Program.  Radiological Society of North America 2009 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 29 - December 4, 2009 ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2009/8503043.html