The European Cancer Imaging Initiative launched in December 2022 and it is part of Europe's Beating Cancer Plan. Its aims are to approach cancer research, treatment and care with innovative ways and digital technologies, targeting precise and faster clinical decision-making, diagnostics, treatments and predictive medicine for the benefit of cancer patients.
In September 2023, the European Cancer Imaging achieved a great milestone: the first prototype of the pan-European digital infrastructure has gone live! It features a public catalogue of cancer imaging datasets from the repositories of EU-funded projects related to Artificial Intelligence for Health Imaging, as well as a searching tool to understand the information available at the data providers’ sites across the EU. With this prototype, 36 datasets of images of 9 cancer types have been linked to over 200.000 image series of about 20.000 individuals.
This was the first milestone out of a long roadmap towards delivering a European federated infrastructure of cancer images data to support healthcare providers, research institutes and innovators in making the best use of innovative data-driven solutions for cancer treatment and care.
You can find the full article on this achievement here.
For more interesting information on the subject visit the pages below:
- Video of Commissioner Breton - European Cancer Imaging Initiative event
- European Cancer Imaging Initiative
- Factsheet: European Cancer Imaging Initiative
- Factsheet: Europe's Beating Cancer Plan – where are we now?
- EU policy on cancer
- European approach to artificial intelligence
- European Health Data Space
- Revised EU Cancer Screening Scheme
- Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health
- Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan