OAK BROOK, Ill. (Dec. 18, 2020) — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force announced today that the first annotated data set from the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database (RICORD) has been published by The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA).

This data set represents the first published component of RICORD, and RSNA’s first contribution to the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), a consortium for rapid and flexible collection, artificial intelligence analysis and dissemination of imaging and associated data. Jointly developed by RSNA, the American College of Radiology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, MIDRC is funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and hosted by the University of Chicago.