The European Cancer Imaging Initiative has taken an important first step towards the creation of a federated European cancer imaging data infrastructure, designed to help healthcare providers and research institutes make the best use of innovative solutions for the treatment and management of cancer, the European Commission announced on Friday 29 September.
This flagship initiative, launched in December 2022, is part of Europe’s ‘Beating Cancer’ Plan and aims to encourage innovation and digital technologies in cancer research, treatment and care.
The first version of this digital infrastructure, provided by the EUCAIM (EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages) project, includes a public catalogue of cancer imaging datasets from EU-funded projects related to artificial intelligence for medical imaging, as well as a search tool for understanding the information available on the sites of data providers across the EU.
The platform links 36 image datasets from 9 cancer types (breast, colon, lung, prostate, rectum, liver, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, neuroblastoma and glioblastoma), providing a total of more than 200,000 image series from around 20,000 individuals.
The Atlas of Cancer Imaging is expected to contain more than 60 million anonymised cancer image data from over 100,000 patients. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)