International data-sharing for radiotherapy research: an open-source based infrastructure for multicentric clinical data mining

Abstract

Extensive, multifactorial data sharing is a crucial prerequisite for current and future (radiotherapy) research. However, the cost, time and effort to achieve this are often a roadblock. We present an open-source based data-sharing infrastructure between two radiotherapy departments, allowing seamless exchange of de-identified, automatically translated clinical and biomedical treatment data.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00969657.

Keywords: Data mining; Knowledge engineering; Machine learning; Medical informatics; Open source software.