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Advancing the Clinical Utility of X-Ray for Respiratory Diseases

2/27/2023

 
Luca Bogoni, Ph.D. — head of advanced research and innovation at OSIC member Carestream Health — shares his company’s reasons for supporting Project OPUS, including the potential of X-ray imaging to play an expanded role in diagnosis and care management of various pathologies.
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OSIC Explores Potential for X-rays for Quantifying Respiratory Diseases

1/25/2023

 
Elizabeth Estes, The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) Executive Director,  discusses adding X-Rays to the OSIC Data Repository and its resulting potential for quantifying respiratory diseases.

Medicom, OSIC Join Forces to Expand Access to Anonymized Clinical Data

12/13/2022

 
Medicom Technologies is partnering with the Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) to help continue to add anonymized, comprehensive data sets to the OSIC Data Repository.
READ MORE ON PULMONARY FIBROSIS NEWS »

Re-IMAGinING the Pathway for Clinical Decision Making in Rare Lung Diseases: Moving Towards a United Vision

10/18/2022

 
Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) Member CSL Behring hosted a symposium during the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress which included presentations from several internationally renowned experts in rare lung diseases. The panel discussed the need to improve clinical decision making to expedite disease recognition, prognostic prediction, and early treatment in interstitial lung disease (ILD) and alpha 1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
READ MORE ON EMJ RESPIRATORY »

AI News: New Consortium Takes Aim at IPF

10/1/2022

 
Radiologists are teaming up to gather data on IPF, a deadly lung disease, utilizing AI to more quickly diagnose and treat those who are affected.
Read more on Radiology Today »

Crowdsourcing Data to Improve Interstitial Lung Disease Outcomes

9/21/2022

 
Could a repository of anonymized CT scans and clinical information provide critical clues about rare, unclassified lung diseases? Elizabeth Estes, Executive Director of The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC), and Dr. Simon Walsh, consultant radiologist and NIHR clinician scientist, sure think so.

In this episode, Elizabeth and Dr. Walsh discuss the exciting role machine learning and algorithms may play on enhancing our disease knowledge—from diagnosis and prognosis to biomarker discovery and therapy response.
read more on Lungcast »

Computer Vision is Primed for Business Value

6/23/2022

 
Companies across a range of industries are deploying image- and video-based artificial intelligence to improve and optimize key business processes and products. The OSIC Data Repository, supported by PwC and Microsoft, is building a platform to share anonymized imaging data to help with diagnosing the disease.
READ MORE ON CIO »

Democratizing Medicine with AI

5/11/2022

 
The Open Source Image Consortium (OSIC) is working to democratize medicine by giving OSIC clinicians and members everywhere the ability to access and benefit from the same technology and information as those affiliated with major research centers. “If we can figure out how to drive collaboration in healthcare, we will change the paradigm,” says Executive Director Elizabeth Estes. 
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A Bold Approach: Improving Rare Disease Treatment and Patient Care through Data Transparency

3/11/2022

 
For decades, the healthcare industry has lacked a long list of elements necessary to understand the nature of hundreds of rare diseases — industry cohesiveness and data transparency chief amongst them. With the help of PwC and Microsoft, one pioneering group of minds may have finally found a key part of the solution: an open-source approach to medical research.
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How AI is Creating a Hopeful Future for Patients

3/11/2022

 
“We have a lot of smart, motivated, dedicated people together who want to see these patients have a different path. The technology is there for personalized medicine. The technology is there to make advances in rare disease,” says Elizabeth Estes, Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) Executive Director.
Watch the WIRED Video »

Forging a New Path to Manage Rare Diseases, Built on Cloud Technology

3/9/2022

 
A discussion with The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC), Microsoft and PwC: See how data and analytics, AI and cloud will reshape the future of healthcare.
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A Brighter Future for Medicine with Healthcare Technology

3/9/2022

 
A first-of-its-kind open source medical imaging and data repository platform is highlighting new possibilities to help improve the speed and accuracy of diagnosis and help patients, providers and researchers better manage the disease.
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OSIC Opens Large Database to Aid Research Into PF, Other ILDs

9/15/2021

 
A large and multi-ethnic database, reported to be the first of its kind for rare lung diseases, is now compiling real-world clinical and imaging data on people with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and other interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) from centers across the globe.
Read more on Pulmonary Fibrosis News »

First-of-its-Kind, Global Data Repository for Interstitial Lung Diseases Launches Through Academic and Industry Collaborative

9/7/2021

 
The highly-anticipated Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) database is driven by global experts in pulmonology, radiology and artificial intelligence, and is the most diverse and largest for rare fibrotic lung diseases
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HOLLAND, Mich., Tuesday, September 7, 2021 – The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) today announced the launch of its global, data-rich repository of anonymized HRCT scans and clinical information regarding interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). This first-of-its-kind database is the world’s largest and most diverse, with a plethora of real world clinical and imaging data that is both multi-ethnic and multi-center. The OSIC Data Repository currently houses close to 1,500 anonymized and quality-controlled scans with accompanying data, and has an additional 5,000 in the quality control queue. It is on track to reach its goal of 15,000 anonymized scans, available to OSIC members, by first quarter 2022.​

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Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) Announces Winners of its $55,000 Kaggle Challenge

12/14/2020

 
AI-Focused Competition Called on the World’s Brightest Data Science Minds
to Predict Lung Function Decline by Using Machine Learning
MEDIA CONTACT
​Theresa Hennessey Barcy
theresa@tmhpublicrelations.com
​773-960-7276
HOLLAND, Mich., Monday, December 14, 2020 – The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) announced today the winners of its $55,000 OSIC Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression Challenge, the first-ever computational challenge for interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). The AI-focused competition was administered by Kaggle, the world’s largest data science community platform, and asked participants to use machine learning to predict lung function decline in people living with pulmonary fibrosis.

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Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) Launches $55,000 AI Competition to Help Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients

7/7/2020

 
The OSIC Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression Will Challenge the World’s Brightest
Data Science Minds to Predict Lung Function Decline by Using Machine Learning

MEDIA CONTACT
​Theresa Hennessey Barcy
theresa@tmhpublicrelations.com
​773-960-7276
HOLLAND, Mich., Tuesday, July 7, 2020 -- The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) announced today the launch of the $55,000 OSIC Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression, an AI-focused challenge to predict lung function decline in people living with pulmonary fibrosis. The competition is administered by Kaggle, the world’s largest data science community platform, and runs through October 6, 2020.

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Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Experts and Advocates Announce Formation of Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC)

5/22/2019

 
Global, Not-for-Profit, Collaborative Effort Focuses on Digital Imaging and Machine Learning to Enable Rapid Advances in the Fight against Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), Fibrosing ILDs, and Other Respiratory Diseases including Emphysematous Conditions ​
MEDIA CONTACT
​Theresa Hennessey Barcy
theresa@tmhpublicrelations.com
​773-960-7276
HOLLAND, Mich., Wednesday, May 22, 2019 — An international group of leading experts and advocates in the fight against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), and other respiratory diseases including emphysematous conditions announced today the formation of the Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC). This global, not-for-profit organization is a cooperative and open source effort between academia, industry and philanthropy to enable rapid advances in the detection and diagnosis of these conditions through digital imaging and machine learning.

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