Medical Imaging using Microsoft Azure and CodaLab
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MEDICAL IMAGING - AND MORE SIMON MERCER DIRECTOR, HEALTH & WELLBEING, MICROSOFT RESEARCH
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Cloud computing provides researchers with the ability to develop and deploy easy-to-use services that are accessible and scale out effectively. In this webinar we will cover : - What are the challenges for medical image analysis that cloud computing can help tackle? - How Microsoft Azure is being used by researchers for their medical imaging work; - How to collaborate with researchers worldwide by sharing and interacting with code, data, and experiments, and to participate in online competitions using CodaLab. http://codalab.org - How can Microsoft Azure help your research, and what to do next. Find out more on the Microsoft Azure for Research website, including our Microsoft Azure awards, free training courses around the world, technical reports and case studies. www.azure4research.com
Transcript of Medical Imaging using Microsoft Azure and CodaLab
MEDICAL IMAGING - AND MORESIMON MERCERDIRECTOR, HEALTH & WELLBEING, MICROSOFT RESEARCH
CODALAB IN CONTEXT
We believe algorithm development is hampered by a lack of access to high-quality data
Our goal: free the data – accelerate the research Data acquisition
Obstacles are predominantly legal and social – address through partnerships
Synthetic data would change the game
Data annotation Build better tools to streamline the process (GeoS)
Data sharing, shared tasks and benchmarks Provide secure, scalable storage, social tools, algorithm execution and workflow – CodaLab
Build an environment for co-development and community adoption – Codalab, Outercurve and Github
Acquisition Annotation Collaboration
DATA ACQUISITION
Working with hospitals to obtain initial datasets
A hospital-by-hospital approach does not scale
Is synthetic data the answer? (INRIA collaboration)
Until them – Creating ground-truth data is a bottleneck
FASTER IMAGE SEGMENTATION: GEOS
GeoS webpages:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/geos/
GeoS user forum active on TechNet:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=geos
User requests and bugs recorded and prioritized 15 new feature requests from Medical Imaging
Workshop, Cambridge
Quarterly release schedule to July 2014 ITK integration: support for DICOM
Commercial licensing available
Acquisition Annotation Collaboration
SHARED TASKS/COMPETITIONS: CODALAB
Outercurve –owned open source (Apache 2.0)
Written in Python to encourage collaboration
Github site established
Governance agreed
Deployed at www.codalab.org
Competition support in place
Experimentation support in progress
Acquisition Annotation Collaboration
Organizer starts a competition
Organizer Uploads Truth Reference Data and
Scoring Program
Only organizer has access to this information
Competition Organizer Data Workflow
Participant requests to join a Competition
Participant accepts Organizer͛!s TOU
Organizer approves participant
Participant granted access to Participation
features
Participant provided external link to
download competition participant data
CodaLab authentication
External Account Database,
permissions managed externally
Competition Participant Workflow
Microsoft Azure for Research Accelerate the Speed of Scientific Discovery
Microsoft Azure provides researchers with the power
and scalability of cloud computing for collaboration,
computation, and data-intensive processing. This
open and flexible global cloud platform supports any
language, tool, or framework.
The Microsoft Azure for Research program:· Free access to Microsoft Azure cloud computing and storage (submit proposals for Microsoft Azure Research Awards)
· Microsoft Azure for Research training classes
· Support and technical resources
Apply the power of cloud computing to your
computational and data challenges. Experiment at
azure4research.com.
For further information:
https://www.codalab.org/
http://research.microsoft.com/medimaging/
