European Population Imaging Infrastructure
As Population Imaging Flagship node Rotterdam, the Imaging Office is connected to the European Biomedical Imaging Infrastructure Euro-BioImaging. Via this infrastructure the Imaging Office is able to provide its services on a European level.
The Population Imaging Flagship node is at the forefront of developments in infrastructure for medical imaging research, tackling the challenges related to collecting, anonymizing, cleaning-up & structuring, storing, sharing, inspecting & annotating, processing & analyzing, and integrating imaging data. It has/had a leading role in European projects that aim to develop infrastructure for medical imaging research, such as EuCanShare, EuCanImage, EOSC4Cancer, and EUCAIM.
Chaired by Professor Gabriel P. Krestin, the the European Population Imaging Infrastructure (EPI2) was an initiative of the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU) and the Erasmus MC, Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine. The ultimate aim of the infrastructure is to help the development and implementation of strategies to prevent or effectively treat disease. It supports imaging in large, prospective epidemiological studies on the population level. Image specific markers of pre-symptomatic diseases can be used to investigate causes of pathological alterations and for the early identification of people at risk.
