NIH project to create COVID-19 medical imaging tools

The National Institutes of Health yesterday announced the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center, a public-private initiative that will create medical imaging tools to detect and personalize therapies for COVID-19 patients.

“This effort will gather a large repository of COVID-19 chest images, allowing researchers to evaluate both lung and cardiac tissue data, ask critical research questions, and develop predictive COVID-19 imaging signatures that can be delivered to healthcare providers,” said Guoying Liu, program lead for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

University of Chicago radiology professor Maryellen Giger will lead the effort, which also includes researchers from the American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, and American Association of Physicists in Medicine.