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The TCIA Advisory Group reviews each candidate collection based on the criteria above and the availability of resources, and decides whether to accept, reject, or ask for clarifications for each candidate collection. Preference is given to data sets which can be fully public and do not require any application process or data use agreements. Proposals which contain supporting non-image data (e.g. patient outcomes, training classifiers/labels, tumor segmentations) are highly preferred to those which lack these characteristics. The Advisory Group is composed of staff from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) who are experts in cancer imaging, informatics and related technologies. The current membership includes:
- Janet EaryLalitha Shankar, Acting Associate Director, NCI Branch Chief, NCI Cancer Imaging ProgramLalitha Shankar, Branch Chief, NCI
- Michael McDonald, Medical Officer, NCI Cancer Imaging Program
- Irina AHala R. LubenskyMakhlouf, Chief Program Director, NCI Cancer Cancer Diagnosis Program
- Krishnan Patel, Assistant Research Physician, Radiation Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research
- Richard Little, Head, Hematologic, HIV, and Stem Cell Therapeutics, NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program