Lung Cancer Workshop 2010: Application of High Resolution CT Imaging Data to Lung Cancer Drug Development: Measuring Progress

These annual meetings bring together oncologists and radiologists, along with representatives of federal agencies and the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, to explore the use of spiral CT scanning as a tool for evaluating response to new therapies more rapidly and accurately. Workshop VII builds on the considerable progress achieved in earlier Workshops in applying quantitative CT imaging to facilitate drug development. This Workshop series has maintained a focus on driving innovation and broad cross-disciplinary inclusion. Accomplishments driven by this forum include facilitating the development of several image databases, such as the National Cancer Institute RIDER Database, Prevent Cancer Foundation-Cornell Database, Lung Cancer Alliance Patient-donated Database (Give-A-Scan). These databases include collections of different types of image files and these diverse resources are critical in allowing the development of software measurement tools.