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Table 1 The key dimensions of the infrastructure developed for each one of the five AI4HI projects

From: Data infrastructures for AI in medical imaging: a report on the experiences of five EU projects

 

CHAIMELEON

EuCanImage 

INCISIVE 

ProCAncer-I

PRIMAGE 

Cancer types

Lung

Colorectal

Breast

Prostate

Colorectal

Liver

Breast

Lung

Colorectal

Breast

Prostate

Prostate

Neuroblastoma

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

Architecture

Hybrid

Accommodating both decentralized and centralized storage

Hybrid (federated and centralized storage)

Centralized

Centralized

Data models and types of data

DICOM-MIABIS

OMOP CDM (terminology IDs mainly)

Structure of the eCRF

DICOM-MIABIS

FHIR (and terminologies supported by FHIR + extensions)

FHIR

SNOMED-CT

LOINC

DICOM

DICOM-RT

OMOP CDM with extensions

DICOM-MIABIS

OMOP CDM

Deidentification process

Pseudonymized initially for curation and then fully anonymized data at the central repository

Pseudonymized data

Pseudonymized data 

Fully anonymized data

Pseudonymized data 

Curation tools

Data completeness and consistency tools, image quality checking, Image anonymization, annotation, segmentation and harmonization

Image anonymization/pseudonymization, quality control and annotation, non-imaging data anonymization and homogenization

Image de-identification tools, quality control, and annotation tools 

Image quality control, anonymization, motion-correction, co-registration & annotation.

Image labelling, quality checking, annotation, denoising, motion correction, registration

Number of potential subjects

13,000 full cases (images + clinical data), 34,000 image only cases

25,000

8,850

17,115

1,500

Number and type of clinical sites

8 university hospitals

6 hospitals (including 4 university hospitals)

9 data providers (5 universities associated with 5 external hospitals, 2 hospitals, 1 association, 1 company) 

13 data providers

Clinical trials: HR-NBL1, LINES and Society of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology. 16 external hospitals.

Location of the central repository, when applicable

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research/EIBIR

MAGGIOLI, Greece

FORTH-ICS, Greece

Microsoft Azure, Dublin, Ireland & Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Level of completion (maturity) of the project

+8,500 patients screened

Data deposition & annotation started end of 2022.

Retrospective data collection and annotation finished, prospective data collection finishes end 2023, storage platform almost ready storing all available data so far. The project finishes in March 2024

Retrospective data collection almost finished.

Platform almost ready.

AI model development started.

Platform ready. Closing data incorporation (cases for external validation) and AI models tunning and testing. The project finishes in May 2023

Involvement of industry

SMEs: Medexprim, Quibim, Bahia

Large corporation: General Electric

SMEs: Collective Minds Radiology, Lynkeus, Radiomics.

Large corporation: Siemens

SMEs: European Dynamics, Telesto, Squaredev, ADAPTIT, VISARIS, Timelex, White Research

Large corporations: MAGGIOLI, Medtronic

SMEs: B3D, Advantis, Quibim

Large corporation: Quiron

SMEs: Quibim, Medexprim, Chemotargets.

  1. AI Artificial intelligence, DICOM Digital imaging and communications in medicine, eCRF Electronic clinical report form, FHIR Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, HR-NBL1 High-risk neuroblastoma 1 trial, IDs Identifiers, LINES Low and intermediate risk neuroblastoma, LOINC Logical observation identifiers names and codes, MIABIS Minimum Information about Biobank Data Sharing, SMEs Small-medium enterprises, SNOMED-CT systematized nomenclature of medicine clinical terms