The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, a Roadmap Initiative to Build a Free and Open Source Software Infrastructure for Translational Research in Medical Image Analysis

Overview

Journal J Am Med Inform Assoc

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Medical Informatics

Date 2011 Nov 15

PMID 22081219

Citations 7

Authors

Tina Kapur

Steve Pieper

Ross Whitaker

Stephen Aylward

Marianna Jakab

Will Schroeder

Ron Kikinis

Affiliations

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Abstract

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary community of researchers, who share the recognition that modern health care demands improved technologies to ease suffering and prolong productive life. Organized under the National Centers for Biomedical Computing 7 years ago, the mission of NA-MIC is to implement a robust and flexible open-source infrastructure for developing and applying advanced imaging technologies across a range of important biomedical research disciplines. A measure of its success, NA-MIC is now applying this technology to diseases that have immense impact on the duration and quality of life: cancer, heart disease, trauma, and degenerative genetic diseases. The targets of this technology range from group comparisons to subject-specific analysis.

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