ICTS Human Imaging Core
The Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) at Washington University brings together researchers from a wide array of disciplines and representing several regional universities, in partnership with health care providers and industry to facilitate discoveries in clinical research. One of their primary goals is to speed the translation of research findings directly into clinical practice — influencing and improving prevention, diagnosis, and therapy for a host of medical conditions.
The NRG is working with the ICTS to further these goals on a number of fronts, whether it’s leveraging our work with the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), or making our tools interoperable with other large data sharing projects such as the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG).
One active project is supporting the imaging informatic needs of the Human Imaging Core, a groundbreaking collection of whole body scans being managed by the Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR) here at Washington University.
The HIU has access to six state-of-the-art imaging scanners used to conduct research in computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), combined PET/CT, and ultrasound (US). Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging cameras also can be accessed from the Center. The NRG’s neuroinformatics platform must support the management of these huge (multiple GB per scan) files, as well as provide for the unique anonymization needs that this research requires.
Learn more about the Human Imaging Core here: http://icts.wustl.edu/cores/hiu.aspx
