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National Cancer Institute Imaging Data Commons: Toward Transparency, Reproducibility, and Scalability in Imaging Artificial Intelligence

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Fedorov, Andrey, Longabaugh, William J. R., Pot, David, Clunie, David A., Pieper, Steven D., Gibbs, David L., Bridge, Christopher, Herrmann, Markus D. +13 more·2023·Radiographics

Abstract

The remarkable advances of artificial intelligence (AI) technology are revolutionizing established approaches to the acquisition, interpretation, and analysis of biomedical imaging data. Development, validation, and continuous refinement of AI tools requires easy access to large high-quality annotated datasets, which are both representative and diverse. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Imaging Data Commons (IDC) hosts large and diverse publicly available cancer image data collections. By harmonizing all data based on industry standards and colocalizing it with analysis and exploration resources, the IDC aims to facilitate the development, validation, and clinical translation of AI tools and address the well-documented challenges of establishing reproducible and transparent AI processing pipelines. Balanced use of established commercial products with open-source solutions, interconnected by standard interfaces, provides value and performance, while preserving sufficient agility to address the evolving needs of the research community. Emphasis on the development of tools, use cases to demonstrate the utility of uniform data representation, and cloud-based analysis aim to ease adoption and help define best practices. Integration with other data in the broader NCI Cancer Research Data Commons infrastructure opens opportunities for multiomics studies incorporating imaging data to further empower the research community to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Published under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Fedorov, A., Longabaugh, W. J. R., Pot, D., Clunie, D. A., Pieper, S. D., Gibbs, D. L., Bridge, C., Herrmann, M. D., Homeyer, A., Lewis, R., Aerts, H. J. W. L., Krishnaswamy, D., Thiriveedhi, V. K., Ciausu, C., Schacherer, D. P., Bontempi, D., Pihl, T., Wagner, U., Farahani, K., Kim, E., & Kikinis, R.
Affiliations
Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
Venue
Radiographics
Published
2023-12-01
Volume
43
Issue
12
Pages
e230180-e230180
ISSN
  • 0271-5333 (ISSN-L)
  • 1527-1323
OpenAlex
W4388967127
Cited by
35
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 8
FWCI
1.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Radiographics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute, National Instutites of Health (HHSN26110071, HHSN261201500003l)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Keywords
artificial intelligence in medical imaging, reproducibility, transparency, data harmonization, open source software, cloud analytics, multi-omics integration
MeSH terms
Multiomics, Artificial Intelligence, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Neoplasms, United States, Reproducibility of Results, National Cancer Institute (U.S.)

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