1. A Virtual Research Environment for Cancer Imaging (VRE-CI) VRE-CI project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to provide a framework to allow researchers and clinicians involved in Cancer Imaging to share information, images and algorithms.  JISC VRE frameworks phase 3.  18 months 01/05/2009 – 31/10/2010.  Project Partner: Microsoft Research  Lee Dirks  Alex Wade  Roger Barga  Team members:  PI. Prof. Anne E. Trefethen  Co-I. Dr. Vicente Grau  Project Manager Dr. M. Susana Avila-Garcia.  Technical developer: Dr. Pin Hu.  http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/vre-ci http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/vre-ci

2. VRE-CI Extend the functionality of the Research Information Centre (RIC) and include tools for articulating and sharing imaging algorithms through the integration of Trident.

3. Current activities  Initial experiences:  Installation of the RIC.  Licensing  Becoming familiar with the RIC architecture.  Defining data models:  Using and adapting both DICOM information model and the data model defined by the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) of the National Cancer Institute. https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/ Ensure automatic population of image metadata when loading DICOM files.  Investigating into analysis models (algorithms, inputs & results)  Developing Web parts and Web services for algorithms for cancer image segmentation.  Working with the technical administrator and developer of the Gray Institute to address the access to their server and data.