[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 110 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 26489]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12273]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


End of the Call for Participation for Computational Photography 
Project for Pill Identification (C3PI)

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: With the successful completion of the 2016 Pill Image 
Recognition Challenge, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) 
gratefully acknowledges the pharmaceutical manufacturers, re-packagers, 
wholesalers, and retail and institutional pharmacies that submitted 
prescription drug products for imaging as part of its Computational 
Photography Project for Pill Identification (C3PI). Effective 
immediately, the NLM is concluding its collection of digital imagery of 
C3PI oral solid dosage formulations (OSDFs), discontinuing the program, 
and is no longer accepting prescription drug products for photography.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any question regarding C3PI and its 
discontinuation should be sent to: Dr. Terry Yoo at 
[email protected], 301-827-4976.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: C3PI developed information infrastructure 
and computational tools for identifying pills from digital photographs 
and associated data. C3PI issued a Pill Image Recognition (PIR) 
computer vision challenge in January 2016, seeking software solutions 
for the content-based information retrieval of drug information from 
images submitted as queries. NLM quantitatively evaluated the resulting 
entries and awarded prizes to the winners. The findings from the PIR 
challenge were published in October 2016. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5973812/.
    NLM is ending the project. No future prescription drug products 
will be accepted. Digital images will not be obtained of drug products 
that may have been submitted but not photographed as of the termination 
of this project.
    Previous NLM Imaging Initiative Superseded: This notice supersedes 
all prior instructions provided by 79 FR 56381-56382 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/09/19/2014-22308/call-for-participation-for-computational-photography-project-for-pill-identification-c3pi, published on September 19, 2014.

    Dated: June 1, 2018.
Patricia Brennan,
Director, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2018-12273 Filed 6-6-18; 8:45 am]
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