Table 1.
Selected computing platforms available to researchers.
| Platform | Website | Main Service |
|---|---|---|
| Computing Hardware (Commercial) | https://www.nvidia.com/ | Hardware: GPU, Servers, Desktop |
| NVIDIA | Software development environment/packages; MONAI, FLARE | |
| Software platforms: CLARA | ||
| Core cloud computing providers (Commercial) | ||
| Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | https://cloud.google.com | Traditional and high performance GPU computing, tools, and cloud storage |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | https://aws.amazon.com | Traditional and high performance GPU computing, tools, and cloud storage |
| Microsoft Azure | https://azure.microsoft.com | Traditional and high performance GPU computing, tools, and cloud storage |
| Platforms for medical imaging | ||
| Non-commercial | ||
| NIH Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC) | https://www.midrc.org/ | An NIH supported multi-institutional initiative, hosted at the University of Chicago, representing a partnership spearheaded by the medical imaging community and, representatives of the American College of Radiology® (ACR®), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for rapid and flexible collection, artificial intelligence analysis, and dissemination of imaging and associated data with a first common goal to build an AI-ready data commons to fuel COVID-19 machine intelligence research that can expand to other organs, relevant diseases, and datasets. |
| NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative | https://datascience.nih.gov/strides | Broker providing price advantaged access to commercial cloud services for NIH grantees, collaborators, and intramural researchers. |
| American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform (PMP) | https://precision.heart.org | A data marketplace to find and access datasets and an AWS suppored cloud based virtual environment for analytics, tool development, and discovery. |
| Biodata Catalyst | https://biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/ | Data analysis tools and access to compute platforms internally within NIH and externally through commercial platforms |
| Commercial | ||
| Seven Bridges | https://www.sevenbridges.com | Offers a cloud-based environment for storing and conducting collaborative bioinformatic analyses that is geared toward genomic data and provides tools to optimize processing. |
| Flywheel Biomedical Data Research Platform | https://flywheel.io | The service provides medical image management environment with tools to streamline research data with searchable, web-based data mining and analytics and sharing capabilities. |
| Ambra Health / Intelerad | https://www.intelerad.com/ambra/ | Offers scalable enterprise medical imaging platform and vendor neutral archive that connects provides tools for image management, clinician access, and other researcher needs such as AI driven quality control and anonymization. |
| CLARA | https://developer.nvidia.com | Platform offering AI applications and accelerated frameworks for healthcare developers, researchers, and medical device makers |
| Terra | https://terra.bio | Platform offerings include tools to help connect researchers to various data resources, analytical capabilities, and visualization software |