Justin Kirby
Technical Project Manager at Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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SeniorJustin Kirby is a Technical Project Manager and Technical Director with over a decade of experience leading cancer imaging informatics at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. He co-founded and oversees The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA), driving data curation, de-identification, and reproducibility efforts that support major NCI initiatives, journals, and challenge competitions. Justin blends hands-on project delivery—managing NBIA software development, multi-team annotation projects, and helpdesk operations—with strategic vision for lab-wide technical direction. He frequently represents the field as an instructor and organizer at major imaging conferences and has served on advisory and editorial committees such as the MONAI Advisory Board and Medical Physics Dataset Article Subcommittee. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he has a background in information technology from Duquesne University and an uncommon depth in operationalizing large-scale, FAIR-compliant imaging datasets for broad research and clinical reuse.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (117)
pii10
feature-extraction10
3d-images10
jupyter-notebook10
pytorch10
extraction10
privacy-protection10
data-loss-prevention9
presidio9
sdk9
pluggable9
python9
datasets9
medical-imaging9
prose9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kirbyju/tcia_utils
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
A package to simplify common tasks one might perform when interacting with The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) via Jupyter/Python.
Contributions:10 reviews, 31 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
kirbyju/TCIA_Notebooks
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:153 commits, 16 PRs, 281 pushes in 11 months
data-analysisdatasetimagingdicomcancer
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