The Office of Data Science Strategy is hosting a webinar:  Imaging Data Commons and Cancer Image Sharing in Today's AI Era

   - Presenter: Andrey Fedorov, Ph.D.

   - Date/Time:  Friday, February 13, 2026 / 12 - 1 p.m. EST

This webinar is part of the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy's Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar Series.

Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) open exciting opportunities to do more with the existing and future imaging datasets. At the same time, they are intricately dependent on the availability and quality of the training data, while heavily relying on public data. In this talk, Dr. Fedorov will discuss the National Cancer Institute Imaging Data Commons (IDC) and the role it can play in both enabling breakthroughs in cancer imaging AI and leveraging the latest AI advances to empower its users. IDC is a cloud-based environment offering unrestricted access to a growing amount of harmonized cancer imaging data, primarily from various NCI data sharing initiatives. 

Beyond image archival, IDC is enriching its datasets through secondary analyses, complementing images with AI-derived annotations and quantitative features. Dr. Fedorov will highlight the specific capabilities of IDC and the datasets it is hosting that can help make cancer imaging AI research more accessible, transparent and explainable. Dr. Fedorov will also present examples of utilizing IDC for investigating the capabilities of existing imaging AI tools and applying them to IDC data. 

A recording of this event is available through the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy's Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar Series page.