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Cancer Informatics: Assignment
A. Read the following
caBIG Primer
Sioutos NCI Thesaurus
Pan GridCAD
B. Provide written answers to the following questions, to be
turned in prior to the Wed class, as per these instructions.
- What is caBIG, and how is it organized?
- How does the NCI Thesaurus fit into caBIG?
- Give an example of how the NCI Thesaurus represents a particular type of cancer.
- What is caGRID, what are its primary components, and how does it fit into caBIG?
- Explain how caGRID is used to faciltate distributed
computer assisted detection (CAD) of potentially cancerous nodules on
medical images.
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