Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC)

OSIC is a co-operative effort between academia, industry and philanthropy designed to enable rapid advances in the fight against Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) and other respiratory diseases, including emphysematous conditions

The OSIC Mission

​Our mission is to bring together radiologists, clinicians and computational scientists from around the world to develop digital imaging biomarkers for accurate imaging-based diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of response to therapy.

​OSIC partners work in pre-competitive areas for mutual benefit and most importantly, the benefit of patients.  

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Timeline of OSIC Events

2018

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• OSIC established
• Boehringer-Ingelheim (Founder Member)
• Siemens Healthineers (Founder Member)
• ClearData EU and US data vaults established
• Science Team established
  • David Barber, PhD, University College London (Computational Science Lead)
  • Simon Walsh, MD, National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College (Radiology Lead)
  • Kevin Brown, MD, ​National Jewish Health (Pulmonology Lead)
• University College of London (UCL) partnership
• Navitas partnership

Q1
2019

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• FLUIDDA (Founder Member)
• Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli (Charter Member)
• ClearData EU and US data vaults established

Q2
2019

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• CSL Behring (Founder Member)
• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lyon (Founder Member)
• OSIC collaborative Working Groups established
  • Data Curation & Compilation
  • Algorithm Development, Test and Distribution
  • Ethics, Privacy and Data Protection
• American Thoracic Society (ATS) Annual Meeting 

Q3
2019

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• U.S. approval of the IRB protocol 
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Founder Member)
• OSIC Protocols developed
  • CRF Process
  • Publication Policy
  • Data Access Policy
• OSIC collaborative Working Groups leads nominated
  • Data Curation & Compilation: Roberto Slepteys (Boehringer-Ingelheim)
  • Algorithm Development, Test and Distribution: Luca Bogoni (Siemens Healthineers)
  • Ethics, Privacy and Data Protection: ​Zheng Yang (Boehringer-Ingelheim)
• First dataset received (surpassing initial goals set)
• European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress
• OSICILD.org website relaunch

OSIC: Driven by Leading Subject-matter Experts

OSIC’s Core Science Leadership Team, a diverse group of leading experts responsible for driving progress toward the organization's goals, seeks to build a broad and diverse team of experts to tackle the challenges laid out by the OSIC.

Institutional Partners

​These organizations have made multi-year commitments of funding and/or pledged to contribute with imaging and clinical data or with other means to OSIC to ensure that it is positioned for success.

Participate in our ​Kaggle Challenge

In anticipation of our first Kaggle Challenge, OSIC has begun receiving anonymized HRCT scans and clinical data from member institutions. We have now surpassed our initial goal of receiving 1,500 scans before the end of 2019.  

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