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Comment on Cultivating Collaborations on Imaging Research and Informatics by Lisa Cole

Lisa Cole — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:51:18 +0000

Thanks for your interest and question, Afshin. The best way to access the data you are asking about is to visit the Washington University website:

http://cancerimagingarchive.net/

Some of the data will be public and some will not, but as there are nine different instances of NBIA there, you will need to explore to find out which site(s) is most relevant to your research needs.

Best,

Lisa Cole
Biomedical Informatics Specialist
National Cancer Institute
Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology

Comment on Cultivating Collaborations on Imaging Research and Informatics by Afshin MokhtariA

Afshin MokhtariA — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:20:11 +0000

Hi thanks for an interesting article. My question is, is it possible for the data sets utilized in the context of QIN research available to the general public? And is there a way to get automated access to this data?

Comment on Cultivating Collaborations on Imaging Research and Informatics by admin

admin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:59:51 +0000

The primary public health and education website of the National Cancer Institute does contain some basic information on this test. Please visit: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/colorectal/patient/page3#Keypoint7. There are additional links for more information there as well.

Best,

Lisa M. Cole
Director of Communications
NCI CBIIT

Comment on Cultivating Collaborations on Imaging Research and Informatics by Navas Azeez

Navas Azeez — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:03:07 +0000

Sir, recently i heard about a cancer detection test. That is fecal occult blood tests (FOBT), actually how this test conduct. and bu doing this can we determine all type of cancers? . Waiting for your reply sincerely Navas Azeez

Comment on Getting There from Here: Four Considerations for Transitioning to Open Development by Angel Wangelona

Angel Wangelona — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:19:15 +0000

Everything is geared toward the technical users and this was one of the biggest problems, from my prospective, in the 8 years of caBIG. The needs of the community, needs to be representative of the needs of the people who the software is developed for, not just the people responsible for writing the coding and maintaining it.

Comment on Cultivating Collaborations on Imaging Research and Informatics by Ma Imelda Corpus

Ma Imelda Corpus — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:50:15 +0000

The collaboration of these two institutes will be of great help for the continuous research on how to cure cancer. This can be also be beneficial in making a more accurate diagnosis for medical practitioners and help them make more advance researches which might be someday will lead on the discovery for the cure for cancers.

Comment on Fresh Start for Informatics at NCI by skin cancer national cancer institute

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Comment on NCIP News Update – July 20, 2012 by Dr Susan Lark

Dr Susan Lark — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:56:10 +0000

Great information about the National Human Genome Research Institute i have just emailed this blog post to my associates, because if i like to read it then my friends will too. thanks

Comment on Getting There from Here: Four Considerations for Transitioning to Open Development by Patient Group Direction

Patient Group Direction — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:32:28 +0000

Hi, interesting post. I have been wondering about this topic, so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be subscribing to your site. Keep up the good posts.

Comment on Getting There from Here: Four Considerations for Transitioning to Open Development by admin

admin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:31:03 +0000

Hi Diane –

Thanks for your comments and for taking the time to read my post as well as the minutes of the meeting. Your point is well-taken – keeping the users’ needs front and center is critical to any successful software development effort – and that’s one of the reasons we are moving to the OSDI model. By moving the software to an open-source environment and opening it up to a wider community, it creates the opportunity for every participant in that community – whether a developer, an end user, someone representing an organization, a government representative, or a patient – to have as much influence as any other in the creation of requirements and the priorities for development. It also allows those who are engaged to invest in the development if they have specific needs. Clearly, an organization or individual will not invest time and money in something that doesn’t have a direct benefit to them.

In our meeting on June 1, which the notes captured, we were quite focused on the process of transitioning our components to this new OSDI environment (i.e., “getting there from here”), and not so much on how the development life cycle might be run once this transition has occurred. By definition, a well-run open-source environment must be driven by the community itself – the participants will determine governance and process. This is another way we are ensuring that control of the applications is in the hands of the community, and that’s really what I meant by two of the main points in my blog post – “let the community decide” and “purpose-driven requirements”.

Thank you again for your thoughts – keep them coming – and for participating as a patient advocate in our programs.

Best,

Juli