The ELIC Distributed Database and Computation Environment for Analyses of Lung Cancer Screening LDCTs Across the World

The rapid adoption of LDCT lung cancer screening throughout the world has resulted in a significant number of published reports providing important local findings from lung cancer screening studies. While these reports provide regional study/program performance information, a global resource to facilitate radiomics and AI research is currently not available. We report here on the recently deployed Early Lung Imaging Confederation (ELIC) database and computation infrastructure currently running on the AWS cloud and illustrates how this resource can be used for AI research.