Australian Imaging Service: Looking Beyond Imaging to Support Clinical Research
Ryan Sullivan1 1The University Of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract
With the completion of the original ARDC project, the Australian Imaging Service (AIS) is in production with 12 nodes across three continents, supporting roughly 400 users and 280 collections. Biomedical research is highly collaborative, needing diverse and representative global populations to address global health challenges, but also uses highly sensitive, and sometimes inherently identifiable, data. Biomedical research is also multimodal, and while imaging is a key part, it is not the only part and needs to be linked to fully unlock insight.
In this talk we will explore the challenges and current work around moving sensitive imaging data across jurisdictions and systems looking at in flight clinical research use cases. We will also look at upcoming work around integrating microscopy, omics, demographic, and survey data with the imaging data on AIS. By coordinating and providing technical integrations, we can meld the data across 5 NCRIS capabilities to facilitate new insights by our leading researchers.
Biography
Dr Ryan Sullivan is Product Manager for Research Platforms at the University of Sydney and Head of the Australian Imaging Service and. He oversees the creation of cutting edge, enterprise grade, research data management, analysis, and informatics software infrastructure.