The Optical Society Applauds NCI Research on CT Scans for Lung Cancer Detection; Experts Available | TradingMarkets.com

"The Optical Society (OSA) today commended the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both sponsors of the National Lung Screening Trial, for announcing results demonstrating significantly fewer lung cancer deaths among patients screened with Computed Tomography (CT) than patients screened with the traditional method of chest X-rays....Through its innovative Interactive Scientific Publishing (ISP) initiative, OSA...provides researchers with access to a large collection of open source annotated CT scans, a free 3-D visualization application that obtains images from a Web-based image archive database called MIDAS, and links to peer reviewed publications that describe the source data and the scientific conclusions supported by the data...."