The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository
The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository
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DOI：
10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7
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发表时间：
2013-12-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Prior, Fred
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作者：
Clark, Kenneth;Vendt, Bruce;Prior, Fred
美国国立卫生研究院非常重视共享研究数据，以支持二级研究。鼓励研究者发表其临床和影像学数据，作为履行其资助义务的一部分。意识到仅仅要求研究人员发布他们收集的成像和临床数据是不够的，美国国家癌症研究所（NCI）创建了开源的国家生物医学图像档案软件包，作为集中托管癌症相关成像的机制。NCI与圣刘易斯的华盛顿大学签订合同，创建癌症成像档案（TCIA）-一个开源，开放获取的信息资源，以支持研究，开发和教育计划，利用先进的癌症医学成像。在运作的第一年，TCIA积累了23个集合（330万张图像）。操作和维护高可用性映像归档是一项复杂的挑战，涉及各种特定于归档的资源，并受映像提交者和映像使用者的需求驱动。任何类型的高质量档案（传统图书馆、PubMed、参考期刊）都需要管理和客户服务。本文描述了TCIA的管理任务和用户支持模型。
The National Institutes of Health have placed significant emphasis on sharing of research data to support secondary research. Investigators have been encouraged to publish their clinical and imaging data as part of fulfilling their grant obligations. Realizing it was not sufficient to merely ask investigators to publish their collection of imaging and clinical data, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) created the open source National Biomedical Image Archive software package as a mechanism for centralized hosting of cancer related imaging. NCI has contracted with Washington University in Saint Louis to create The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)-an open-source, open-access information resource to support research, development, and educational initiatives utilizing advanced medical imaging of cancer. In its first year of operation, TCIA accumulated 23 collections (3.3 million images). Operating and maintaining a high-availability image archive is a complex challenge involving varied archive-specific resources and driven by the needs of both image submitters and image consumers. Quality archives of any type (traditional library, PubMed, refereed journals) require management and customer service. This paper describes the management tasks and user support model for TCIA.