New Chest Imaging Database Assists AI in the COVID-19 Fight - SciTechDaily

Published today in the Open-Access, Open-Data journal GigaScience is the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID), a centralized database containing chest X-rays, Computed Tomography (CT) and MRI scans from patients across the UK.

Utilizing the unique position as the world’s single largest integrated healthcare system, the benefits of collecting chest imaging data this large are extensive and already being used by doctors and the research community.

Representative de-identified lung image from National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID).

With the GigaScience paper describing how to access this Open Data resource, the NCCID training data is available to users anywhere in the world, including software developers, academics, and clinicians, via a rigorous Data Access Request process.

The National Covid Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) is one of the largest datasets of its kind and it is continuously growing, with 25 NHS trusts and over 25 NHS trusts and 27 hospitals contributing.

Collecting imaging data from over 10,000 patients in the NCCID training set to make available 34,559 image studies and 1,663GB of data.

It is an initiative established by NHSX, the new UK Government unit with responsibility for setting national policy and developing best practice for the National Health Service (NHS) technology, digital and data, including data sharing and transparency.

Reference: “An overview of the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database: data quality and cohort analysis” 29 November 2021, GigaScience.

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