Using imaging to combat a pandemic: rationale for developing the UK National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database

Affiliations

• ¹ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University College London, London, UK [email protected].
• ² Centre for Medical Image Computing, Dept of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
• ³ Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁴ Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁵ Faculty, London, UK.
• ⁶ The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics (iCAIRD), Dept of eHealth, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK.
• ⁷ Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁸ National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI), The University of Oxford, Big Data Institute, Oxford, UK.
• ⁹ NHSX, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹¹ Dept of Radiology, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.
• ¹² Dept of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹³ Scientific Computing, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK.
• ¹⁴ Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
• ¹⁵ Dept of Radiology, Royal Free London NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁶ Health Data Research UK, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Health Informatics Centre (HIC), School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
• ¹⁸ Dept of Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.
• ¹⁹ Dept of Radiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ²⁰ Dept of Radiology, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
• ²¹ National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²² Bioxydyn Limited, Manchester, UK.
• ²³ Dept of Radiology, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
• ²⁴ Dept of Radiology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
• ²⁵ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ²⁶ Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ²⁷ British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre, Health Data Research UK, Edinburgh, UK.
• ²⁸ Radiology Dept, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK.
• ²⁹ School of Allied and Public Health Professions, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK.
• ³⁰ 12 NHS Nightingale Hospital London, London, UK.