This database was made possible by a generous grant by the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation (CRPF) working in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to accelerate progress in developing quantitative disease monitoring using computer aided techniques.

The CRPF was assisted in this effort by a series of unrestricted grants from major pharmaceutical companies. Imaging research efforts at Cornell Medical Center have been in part supported by NCI research grants. This resource represents a visionary public private partnership to accelerate progress in management of lung cancer, the most lethal of all cancers.

Data accrual for this database is ongoing. The current database contains a limited number of annotated CT image scans that highlight many of the key issues in measuring large lesions in the lung. All images are freely available and may be downloaded from the website. The annotations will also soon be made once an appropriate file format has been established.

The website provides a set of interactive image viewing tools for both the CT images and their annotations. It also includes presentations of lesion measurements and growth analysis. These capabilities, prototyped through this database, may be anticipated in future NCI web-based image archives; our research groups are active participants in the NCI LIDC and RIDER projects.

We use a secure access method for the data entry web site to maintain the privacy of the data and the user. Currently, we have a self-certified web site, this causes most browsers to produce a number of warning messages. Please ignore these messages and click on the next, finish, accept or allow buttons as appropriate until the data entry web page appears. At this time the lock icon will appear on the web browser and transactions will be secure (in spite of all those messages).

To access the public database click here