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ArticleCancer research2017

LesionTracker: Extensible Open-Source Zero-Footprint Web Viewer for Cancer Imaging Research and Clinical Trials.

Trinity Urban, Erik Ziegler, Rob Lewis, Chris Hafey, Cheryl Sadow, Annick D Van den Abbeele, Gordon J Harris

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Article in Cancer research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Trinity UrbanOpen Health Imaging Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
Erik ZieglerOpen Health Imaging Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
Rob LewisOpen Health Imaging Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
Chris HafeyOpen Health Imaging Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
Cheryl SadowTumor Imaging Metrics Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Annick D Van den AbbeeleTumor Imaging Metrics Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Gordon J HarrisOpen Health Imaging Foundation, Chicago, Illinois. gjharris@partners.org.

Funding

Extensible open-source zero-footprint web viewer for oncologic imaging researchU24CA199460 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HARRIS, GORDON J · 2015 to 2019
$3.5M
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA199460
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncology clinical trials have become increasingly dependent upon image-based surrogate endpoints for determining patient eligibility and treatment efficacy. As therapeutics have evolved and multiplied in number, the tumor metrics criteria used to characterize therapeutic response have become progressively more varied and complex. The growing intricacies of image-based response evaluation, together with rising expectations for rapid and consistent results reporting, make it difficult for site radiologists to adequately address local and multicenter imaging demands. These challenges demonstrate the need for advanced cancer imaging informatics tools that can help ensure protocol-compliant image evaluation while simultaneously promoting reviewer efficiency. LesionTracker is a quantitative imaging package optimized for oncology clinical trial workflows. The goal of the project is to create an open source zero-footprint viewer for image analysis that is designed to be extensible as well as capable of being integrated into third-party systems for advanced imaging tools and clinical trials informatics platforms.

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Clinical Trials as TopicComputational BiologyDiagnostic ImagingHumansInternetNeoplasmsOutcome Assessment, Health CareReproducibility of ResultsUser-Computer Interface

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PMCPMC5679226

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