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The NIH has launched the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) program to gather and analyze COVID-19 related clinical data, currently not including imaging. Because there is an urgent public health need to have COVID-19 image data for all disease stages freely available for caregivers and the research community immediately, the NCI Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) is utilizing its Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) as a resource for making image sets public since it is uniquely ready to carry out a short term effort COVID-19 patient images for immediate reference by the community. Efforts are underway to link TCIA open access image data to the N3C collections when appropriageappropriate.
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