The Scottish Medical Imaging Archive: 57.3 Million Radiology Studies Linked to Their Medical Records.

MRI, Imaging Sequences, Ultrasound, Mammography, CT, Angiography, Conventional Radiography Published under a CC BY 4.0 license. See also the commentary by Whitman and Vining in this issue.

An extensible big data software architecture managing a research resource of real-world clinical radiology data linked to other health data from the whole Scottish population.

Aim: To enable a world-leading research dataset of routinely collected clinical images linked to other routinely collected data from the whole Scottish national population. This includes more than 30 million different radiological examinations from a population of 5.4 million and >2 PB of data collected since 2010.