%0 Journal Article %J Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association %D 2012 %T The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing, a roadmap initiative to build a free and open source software infrastructure for translational research in medical image analysis %A Kapur, T.a %A Pieper, S.b %A Whitaker, R.c %A Aylward, S.d %A Jakab, M.a %A Schroeder, W.d %A Kikinis, R.a %X The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary community of researchers, who share the recognition that modern health care demands improved technologies to ease suffering and prolong productive life. Organized under the National Centers for Biomedical Computing 7 years ago, the mission of NA-MIC is to implement a robust and flexible open-source infrastructure for developing and applying advanced imaging technologies across a range of important biomedical research disciplines. A measure of its success, NA-MIC is now applying this technology to diseases that have immense impact on the duration and quality of life: cancer, heart disease, trauma, and degenerative genetic diseases. The targets of this technology range from group comparisons to subject-specific analysis. %B Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association %V 19 %P 176–180 %G eng %U http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857161947&partnerID=40&md5=c7d7cbab9304114a219812cb7c5091ee