1. Introduction
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EUCAIM is a federated digital infrastructure for the management of medical images in the scope of oncology. EUCAIM aims at addressing the challenges of the European Cancer Imaging Initiative. There are imaging datasets for different types of cancer, but they are widely distributed and they are not easily accessible. EUCAIM aims at addressing the following challenges:
Foster the use of digital technologies for developing better diagnosis, treatment and prediction in cancer.
Integrate resources, data and tools in an open infrastructure of cancer imaging for the development and validation of new tools and strategies.
Guarantee privacy, security and trustworthiness in the access and usage of medical images.
Contribute to the implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
The benefits of EUCAIM are expected at four levels:
Researchers will be able to access a digital infrastructure to access, share and process cancer medical imaging and associated data in a pan-European scope.
Innovators will be provided with a reference framework with standardised data and state-of-the-art tools to facilitate the benchmarking and certification of new products.
Physicians will be able to experiment and clinically validate new tools for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancer.
Citizens’ quality of life will be improved by means of early diagnosis, more accurate and personalised treatments.
The platform provides a set of components that facilitate preserving, sharing, accessing and processing medical images, especially in the context of AI development. EUCAIM offers a flexible model for supporting data holders with different levels of maturity, as well as reference storages for those data holders who cannot set up a dedicated federated node, but are able to transfer the data to a reference storage.
This document constitutes the first end-user guide to the platform, especially dedicated to the data users, researchers or innovators who would be interested in accessing the platform to browse and search for data, request access to it and process it.
Abbreviations
Terms
Definitions
AAI
Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
AI4HI
AI4HI AI for Health Imaging Network
API
Application Programming Interface
Auth
Authentication
BBMRI-ERIC
European Infrastructure for Biobanking - European Research Infrastructure Consortium
DCAT-AP
Data Catalogue vocabulary Application Profile
DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communication In Medicine
DNS
Domain Name System
EduGain
Global interfederation service that interconnects multiple identity federations
EGI
European Grid Infrastructure
ELK
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
EOSC
European Open Science Cloud
EU
European Union
EUCAIM
European Federation for Cancer Images
FAIR
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable
FDP
FAIR Data Point
GDPR
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
Guacamole
A clientless remote desktop gateway
GUI
Graphical User Interface
IdP
Identity Provider
LS-AAI
Life Sciences Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
MOLGENIS
A modular web application for scientific data, initially focused on molecular genetics research (molecular genetics information system) but expanded to other disciplines.
Negotiator
BBMRI-ERIC service for structured negotiator for biomedical resources
PV
Persistent Volume object
PVC
Persistent Volume Claim
QUIBIM
Spanish company on AI applied to Image Biomarkers
RIS
Radiological Information System
UPV
Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia University of Technology)
VAULT
Hasihcorp identity-based secrets and encryption management system
VO
Virtual Organisation
WP
Work Package
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