title: 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.
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.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. tkapur@bwh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Tina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kapur
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pieper
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Whitaker
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aylward
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jakab
authors.forename: Will
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schroeder
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kikinis
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005544:Forecasting; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D033181:Information Dissemination; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012984:Software; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014481:United States
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