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The Cancer Imaging Program's (CIP) informatics team were in need of a standards based de-idenfication procedure for images that are were being submitted to the National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA).  In February of 2009 we contacted David Clunie for input on this and he directed us to the DICOM Working Group 18 draft (v03) of Supplement 142.  CIP then gathered a small group of industry experts to discuss how this could be implemented in the RSNA's Clinical Trial Processor (CTP) software. The primary identified goals of the project were:

1. Generate CTP-readable templates based on the guidelines in  DICOM Working Group 18, Supplement 142.
2. Create a release of CTP that will allow easy access to and management of these templates, and script files derived from these templates.

(Note: As of May 2011 CIP has launched The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA), a customized/enhanced version of caBIG's NBIA software staffed by a team of DICOM experts to manage support and image submissions to be the home of our  future archiving efforts.  Registration is free and a number of high value image collections have already been made available since launch - see list of Collections.)

RSNA Poster:

A poster was accepted for the RSNA 2009 Annual Meeting describing the group's activities and how this work would be integrated with caBIG's National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA) software to provide a clean and secure public facing image archive for the imaging community. This poster can be found here: supp142 poster-final.ppt

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