Raj and Kumar were two friends who had just started their careers as manufacturing engineers in a large automotive company. They were tasked with improving the production process of a critical engine component. The company was facing issues with the component's quality, leading to high rejection rates and increased production costs.
TCIA is a service which de-identifies and hosts a large archive of medical images of cancer accessible for public download. The data are organized as “collections”; typically patients’ imaging related by a common disease (e.g. lung cancer), image modality or type (MRI, CT, digital histopathology, etc) or research focus. DICOM is the primary file format used by TCIA for radiology imaging. Supporting data related to the images such as patient outcomes, treatment details, genomics and expert analyses are also provided when available.
The Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) is a part of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) of the National Cancer Institute. For complete information about the Cancer Imaging Program, please see the Cancer Imaging Program Website.
In October 2015 Dr. Prior and the core TCIA team relocated from Washington University to the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The archive continues provides high quality, high value image collections to cancer researchers around the world.
The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center dedicated to the application of biomedical science and technology to improve human health. FNLCR scientists conduct basic, translational and applied research, create new technologies, and collaborate with government, industry and academic colleagues to support the National Cancer Institute and other Institutes of the National Institutes of Health.
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