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The Importance of Data Standards to Integrative Queries

Informatics helps us communicate. It can help us better treat our patients.

This common infrastructure depends on data interoperability, which is greatly aided by adherence to data standards. While standards such as Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) exist, vendors of data viewers and other tools required for the analysis of imaging data have not widely adopted them. Digital pathology, unlike its more mature radiographic counterpart, has yet to standardize on a single storage and transport media. The result of this lack of uniformly accepted standards is that outside a given laboratory of small collaborative groups, the integration of pathology data with radiographic, genomic, and proteomic data is all but impossible. The lack of standards in pre-clinical and pathology prevents the ability to share and leverage data across studies and institutions.

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Informatics help us communicate. It can help us better treat our patients.