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Join us for our OSIC
Industry Theatre Presentation at the
​ATS 2024 International Conference

OSIC @ ATS 2024 -- an OSIC industry theater presentation. Machine Learning and Fibrosing Lung Disease: Imaging Biomarker Progress. Jon us on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 from 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. PT in Innovation Theatre 1 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA [Learn more!]
Dr. Kevin Brown and Dr. Simon Walsh will talk about recent developments in biomarker discovery from OSIC members, including advanced bronchial and vascular phenotyping, quantification and new open source models for mortality prediction. They will also address the recent inclusion and importance of lung cancer screening scans to the OSIC Cloud Data Repository in order to drive biomarker discovery for early ILA identification and progression, as well as share an update on the new Alpha-1 and Sarcoidosis cohorts.

Additionally, we will unveil the new OSIC Cloud, which currently has a commitment of more than 20,000 datasets.

This presentation is sponsored by OSIC and open to all attendees.
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We hope to see you there!

Our Speakers


Dr. Kevin Brown
Dr. Kevin Brown
National Jewish Health
National Jewish Health
Dr. Simon Walsh
Dr. Simon Walsh
​National Heart & Lung Institute,
​​Imperial College London
National Heart ​& Lung Institute
​Royal Brompton
and Harefield Hospitals
Royal Brompton Hospital

Moderator


Elizabeth Estes
Elizabeth Estes
OSIC

The World’s Largest and Most Diverse, Curated Global Data Repository for ILDs

The OSIC Cloud Data Repository (OSIC Cloud) was built with the expertise and help of radiologists, pulmonologists, machine learners, and imaging experts from around the world. It is a data‑rich, curated repository of anonymized HRCT scans and clinical information regarding ILDs, and houses a plethora of real world clinical and imaging data that is both multi‑ethnic and multi‑center. One of the key features of the OSIC Cloud is its diverse and representative sample of anonymized patient cases. By including global data from multiple centers and ethnicities, the repository offers a more complete and realistic picture of ILDs than individual studies or datasets can provide.

The purpose of the OSIC Cloud is to provide researchers and clinicians with access to high‑quality data that can be used to advance our understanding of ILDs to help improve patient care. This allows researchers to analyze and compare imaging findings with clinical data, providing a more comprehensive understanding of ILDs.
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The data in the OSIC Cloud is carefully curated and quality controlled to ensure its reliability and accuracy. This makes the repository a valuable resource for machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, which require large amounts of accurately‑labeled data to build algorithms. By providing access to anonymized, high‑quality, multi‑center data, this repository has the potential to advance research and improve patient outcomes in this important field of medicine.

It is our belief that this database could be the start of finding digital imaging biomarkers that could potentially speed up diagnosis, and aid in better understanding of individual prognosis and response to therapy.
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Cloud Platform Highlights

Clinical Data Filter
Imaging Data Filter
Case Viewer
DICOM Tag Browser View
Easily Contribute Cases
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Prof. David Barber
The future of medical research depends heavily on our ability to collate significant amounts of data, and make that data available for detailed and open scientific investigation. It's a proud moment that OSIC is at the forefront of this movement. Data is the essence of scientific progress and the OSIC repository already contains preliminary data rich enough to better understand the causes of disease, leading to better treatment and patient outcomes."
Prof. David Barber
​University College London,
​OSIC Computational Science Lead

The OSIC Cloud Data Overview

Diversity of Regions

Total committed datasets from Northern Europe, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, North America, South America, and Asia-Pacific (APAC): 20,789
Diversity of Regions chart
Countries in the Northern Europe region are defined as Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, or the United Kingdom.
Countries in the Western Europe region are defined as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or Switzerland.
Countries in the Central and Eastern Europe region are defined as Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, or Ukraine.
Countries in the North America region are defined as Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, or the United States of America.
Countries in the South America region are defined as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, or Peru.
Countries in the Africa region are defined as Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, or Zambia.
Countries in the APAC region are defined as Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, or Turkey.
No Information is defined as datasets that specific regions cannot be released (ex. clinical trial datasets).
New Cohort

Lung Cancer Screening – Coming Soon 

The presence of ILA on a lung cancer screening is a significant finding that can increase the risk of developing ILD and may be associated with a higher risk of mortality. Early detection and appropriate management of ILA may be crucial in preventing the progression to ILD and improving long-term outcomes. 
OSIC Lung Cancer Screening Repository Cohort
In a recent study of 1,384 individuals who received a lung cancer screening via CT scan, researchers identified “4% ILA in a lung cancer screening cohort; 37% had radiologic progression of ILA at 1 year and 40% were diagnosed with ILD within 5 years. Fibrotic ILA, defined by the presence of traction bronchiectasis, was a strong predictor of mortality, reduced progression-free survival, and diagnosis of ILD.” 

The lung cancer cohort in our database will allow for future research to help identify biomarkers that can predict ILA/ILD disease progression. ​
GOAL OF

10,000

screens in 2024

OSIC AI/Biomarker Innovation Showcase

OSIC invited member radiologists, computational scientists, clinicians and industry experts to share a variety of different insights and key learnings that have resulted from working with our curated, global repository of anonymized HRCT scans and clinical data for interstitial lung diseases (ILDs).
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OSIC Annual Member Meeting in Milan, Italy. OSIC 2023 AI/Biomarker innovation Showcase: Curated Data and Progress on Novel Biomarkers
During this collaborative forum, attendees:
  • Listened to, learned from, and asked questions of 13 OSIC members who presented their findings 
  • Had a dialog about the inclusion of new lung cancer screening scans to look for ILAs and ILDs  
  • Learned about the new OSIC Cloud for easier ingestion and usage of data 
  • Heard what OSIC has in store for the future, and how they can collaborate with other members
  • Participated in a roundtable discussion on “Finding Meaningful Digital Biomarkers and AI for Rare Lung Disease”

Explore what was presented and discussed during the OSIC AI/Biomarker Innovation Showcase:
Access the OSIC AI/Biomarker Innovation Showcase
Now available. Released Open-Source

CenTime
​Event-conditional modeling of censoring in survival analysis

OSIC provided a grant to University College London (UCL) to create algorithms to help advance digital imaging biomarkers for accurate imaging-based diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of response to therapy. Through this initiative, the UCL team created “CenTime: Event-conditional modeling of censoring in survival analysis.” This work aims to address key limitations in current survival analysis methods.

The algorithm has been trained and evaluated using the combination of real-world, high-resolution lung CT scans (HRCT), associated clinical data, and mortality labels from the OSIC Data Repository. CenTime has shown promising results in more accurately predicting survival probabilities. This has the potential to advance digital imaging biomarkers, not only for lung disease but for other diseases by addressing key limitations in current survival analysis methods and allowing for more accurate and reliable models.
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Current Limitations
  1. The standard Cox model focuses only on ranking patients by survivability without estimating the actual event time.
  2. Other models in the literature treat the problem as a classification task, ignoring the time-ordered nature of events.
  3. Effective use of censored samples is often overlooked.
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CenTime
  1. Directly estimates the event time.
  2. Features a novel machine learning method for leveraging censored training samples (samples where the exact death time is unknown).
  3. Encodes the ordinal nature of event time.
  4. Performs robustly even when uncensored data is scarce.
  5. Can be easily integrated into deep learning setups.

UCL compared CenTime with standard methods like the Cox proportional-hazard model and DeepHit. Results have indicated that CenTime offers state-of-the-art performance in predicting time-to-death while maintaining comparable ranking performance.
Watch Ahmed Shahin present the CenTime model
Read the published paper
Access the open source code

Learn more about OSIC

We encourage you to contact us to discuss our mission, the OSIC Cloud Data Repository, and how you can help make a difference in the fight against IPF and ILDs. Additional partners, collaborators and contributors are welcome and encouraged.
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