CT COLONOGRAPHY

In 2004 when presenting the NCI Executive Committee the ACRIN proposal to conduct the National CT Colonography Trial (6664), a case was made that publicly accessible image data sharing would offer a valuable research asset to a wide image processing research community. Adding to the many merits of that proposal, the data-sharing component was strongly endorsed. ACRIN completed the trial expeditiously and its results were published in NEJM in fall 2008 to wide interest. ACRIN has graciously allowed the wider research community access to a portion of the data from that trial here on TCIA, including spreadsheets identifying positive and negative polyp cases. The complete ACRIN 6664 protocol description can be found at http://www.acrin.org/TabID/151/Default.aspx.