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Radiology response prostate

Radiology response prostate

Meeting overview

Meeting series regarding joint work on modelling radiology response for prostate in openEHR.

 Meeting minutes

Date

Attendees

Agenda

Notes, decisions and action items

Date

Attendees

Agenda

Notes, decisions and action items

Apr 4, 2025

 

How to handle incidental findings and quality issues

 

Mar 21, 2025

Sweden

@Claudia Ehrentraut

@Manna Vosta

 

Switzerland (Basel)

@Olha Nikolaieva

@Simon Egli

 

Norway

@Bjørn Næss

@LivL

 

 

Questions about measurement archetype

 

How to handle findings i lymph nodes and bone marrow and incidental findings

Questions about measurement archetype

  • Seems that Physical properties is not a new archetype but a new version of existing openEHR-EHR-CLUSTER.specimen_measurements.v1.adl, i.e. Specimen measurements. When trying to import the Physical properties archetype into our GitHub-branch (see error message below, seems it’s due to the fact that the branch already contains version 1.0 of the specimen measurement archetype). Shouldn’t the Physical properties archetype be it’s own archetype, since the name has changed, instead of a new version of the Specimen measurement archetype

    • image-20250317-143505.png
  • Answer from Liv

    • Yes, the Physical properties archetype is supposed to become it’s own archetype

    • But, there is another archetype with the name physical property so they cannot use the name for the new archetype, hopefully this will resolve within the near future

 

How to handle findings i lymph nodes and bone marrow and incidental findings

  • Claudia presents information specification which describes which information needs to be captured in the radiology report for MR prostate in Sweden

  • Discussion on lymph nodes

  • Discussion on bone marraw changes

    • The idea is to capture information on bone marrow using the Imaging examination of a body structure archetype and then using Imaging examination of an anomaly the in order to capture information on the changes

    • Input Liv, Bjørn, Olha:

      • Agreed that it sounds reasonable to use the anomaly archetype (according to Liv it shouldn't take to long until its done, it will maybe change name to findings and will probably have a broader scope than just imaging)

      • 14016003 | Bone marrow structure (body structure) | can be used

      • Bjørn shares information on a template for Colonoscopy that they modelled 4 years ago. Then, they created a specific archetype (due to time constraints), i.e., openEHR-EHR-CLUSTER.colonscopy_lesion_findings_dips.v2 (see screen shot below), but he presumes that this could be replace with the new anomaly archetype (The modelling for colonoscopy is public available here: https://github.com/bjornna/Arena-Tarmjournal )

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  • Other

    • Liv shares a template that can be used before the MDT conference https://tools.openehr.org/designer/#/viewer/shared/Pz9zaGFyZWRJZD0xJDIyZjc2ZjI1YTQyZDQyODViNzU5NmU0ZGZmZmIxY2U0

      • image-20250321-085559.png

 

 

To do

  • Claudia will share mind map

  • Olha will share Basels requirements when they are collected/done

Mar 7, 2025

Sweden

@Claudia Ehrentraut

@Manna Vosta

 

Switzerland (Basel)

Olha Nikolaieva

 

Norway

@Bjørn Næss

@Vebjørn Arntzen

@LivL

@Lise Kristin Knutsen

@Eli Larsen

@Kanika Kuwelker

@Mona Didriksen

@John Tore Valand

Anne Karine Aaserud Fossum

Martine Lousie Nalum

Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger

Helge Egil Seime Pettersen

Morten Paicevic Hørthe

Presentation of latest template version

  • Liv mentions that new separate archetype for measurements is being created Clinical Kno

  • wledge Manager which can be used for organ or lesion.

  • Liv and Kanika inform that even anomaly archetype is gonna change, but discussion is still ongoing, maybe it could change to some sort of findings archetype that can be used for tumors, cuts etc.

  • Vebjørn: The design pattern of Physical examination findings and Imaging examination findings were decided some years ago, and are oriented around the body structure or organ in which findings are found. An alternative that were abandoned were to orient the archetypes around the finding, and add in which organ and modality of imaging technique used and the way the finding were discovered. There are pros and cons of both. If the design pattern are to be flipped, it will take a lot of work to redesign, and there is no appetite to prioritise this, nor any volunteers. Any discussion on a potential such change must be done in the soon-to-be Clinical Operation Program (COP) led by Chief Clinical Information Officer, Heather Leslie. Note that the parent archetype of both Physical examination finding and Imaging examination finding can be used as a general archetype, if there are no specialisation available.

  • John proposed idea to use relative anatomical location for following attributes

  • image-20250307-085412.png
  • Bjørn thinks that approach so far works well with the different clusters but that it is important to consider which attributes are more general

To do

  • Claudia updates templates based on proposals above and checks if some attributes are used more general than in MRI/prostate context

 

Dec 20, 2024

@Bjørn Næss

@Claudia Ehrentraut

Discussion on how to handle sectors and PSA-density

Claudia presented input from radiologist regarding PSA-density, se below. Based on this input and discussion at Karolinska Claudia has created a CLUSTER archetype for PSA density, similar to the CLUSTER-archetype for pirads.

  • Usually present in the MRI response, should/could be included in the assessment of PI-RADS (MRI in a clinical context)

  • Could be added the urologist once the answer has come from the radiologist

 

Discussion on how to represent sector and zone

  • Claudia presented idea on using Specific site in Anatomincal location multiple times in order to capture sector, main sector, zone and main zone

  • Björn introduces idea of using Anatomical location two times, for sector and zone, and using body site namn för the main zone or sector and then specific site for capturing all sectors and zones where lesion is located (since lesion can be spread over multiple sectors and up to two zones

  • Björn introduces of adding new Snomed CT codes for when the lesion is spread over two zones TZ (PZ) and PZ (TZ).

 

Dec 6, 2024

@Heather Leslie

@Vebjørn Arntzen

@Bjørn Næss

@Claudia Ehrentraut

Discussion of events

Discussion on how to handle sectors

  • Agreed to use single event in imaging examination result-part av template

    • Claudia clarified that template is supposed to be used for capturing the radiology response that the radiologist sends back to urologist (as a result of that the urologist requested an MRI and assessment of it)

  • Discussed that our focus needs to be on SLOT Structured imaging findings in imaging examination of a bodystructure (prostate), i.e., thats where main part of the information should go

  • Resoned to have contrast use at finding level, i.e. having information under imaging examination of the prostate

  • Overall impression could be used to capture for narrative report

  • Discussion PSA-density

    • Reasoned to put PSA-density into a separate OBSERVATION (called vital signs?) or CLUSTER archetype (Cluster would be suitable if PSA-ensity is mainly used under imaging

To do

  • Claudia checks with radiologist in which context PSA-density is mainly used/created

Nov 22, 2024

@Heather Leslie

@LivL

@Bjørn Næss

@Vebjørn Arntzen

@Claudia Ehrentraut

Continue to discuss action items

  • Discussed action point “How to represent MRI technique details?”. Claudia presented outline of cluster-archetype for MRI technique, see screenshot below.

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    • Discussed if information in this archetype, especially contrast use, should be put under protocol or rather under data

    • Björn talked about a use case within research where they had an approach of having several events in the observation archetype OBSERVATION.imaging examination result in order to reflect different “tests”, i.e.

      • Test 1 without contrast

      • Test 2 with contrast X

      • Test 3 with contrast Y

      • Test 4 with contrast Z

    • Tested this approach in the template, se screenshot below. In this approach information can be captured per test, but the radiologist may need the possibility to give an overall assessment for all tests. That would require a change in the OBSERVATION-archetype. Claudias impression is that radiologists give one overall response that is based on all images taken. Unclear if its common to perform several “tests” with and without contrast even in clinical setting

    • image-20241122-124058.png

 

To do

  • Claudia checks following with radiologist

    • Would radiologist need to capture impression/diagnosis/etc. per “test”, e.g., (test 1) with contrast (test 2) without contrast.

    • Do they need an overall comment where they can compare the different “tests”?

    • Would it be more complex than with or without contrast

  • Claudia checks if there are other examples of radiology responses

 

 

 

 

Nov 8, 2024

@Silje Ljosland Bakke

@Vebjørn Arntzen

@LivL

@Bjørn Næss

@Claudia Ehrentraut

First start up meeting

  • Discussed different points in time that are of relevance in radiology response and how they can be captured in imaging examination result-archetype, based on question raised in previous meeting, i.e., “How to document 'when the image was examined? Another Event? Or using the Event’s RM element ‘time’?”´, see Modelling radiology response for prostate cancer biopsy - Clinical - openEHR

    • Discussed that Event time in Reference model (RM) for Imaging examination result should reflect the relevant physiological point in time, in this case when images were taken.

      • image-20241108-161430.png

    • Discussed that Data.Study date should capture point in time when the MRI study (examination) is performed, i.e. when the MRI image(s) are taken of the patient. Thus Study date and Event time will essentially be set to the same time

      • image-20241108-161341.png

  • Discussed how to capture date for when assessment by the radiologist is performed and response is written

    • Resoned that Date and Time Recorded in the RM for Result report is more of a technical date/time and should not be used

    • Discussed that we could add an explicit data element for date of assessment by radiologist in Imaging examination result

    • Discussed the alternative option that, given implicit is sufficient, we could use Data.Status timestamp in in Imaging examination result for capturing the date when assessment by the radiologist is performed and response is written. In case of two responses being written for the same pictures, that could result in two instances of the template where Study date and Event time are the same, but where Status timestamp is set to different date/times, and where possibly Overall result status is first set to Preliminary and then to Final.

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 Open action items

Action

Ideas

Proposed solution

Status

Action

Ideas

Proposed solution

Status

How to represent when MRI study was performed, i.e., images were taken of the patient?

 

Use Data.Study date and RM.Event time in Imaging examination result date when the MRI study (examination) is performed, i.e. when the MRI image(s) are taken of the patient

REVIEW

How to represent when radiologist assessed the images?

 

Use Data.Status timestamp in in Imaging examination result for capturing the date when the radiologist assesses the images and writes the response.

REVIEW

How to represent MRI technique details?

  • Suggest to create a separate Cluster with element for ‘magnetic field strength’ as a starting point, instead of using Dose-archetype

Create CLUSTER MRI technique details containing

  • Magnetic field strength

  • Contrast use

  • Image capturing

image-20250307-091909.png

ongoing

How to represent sector and zone of the prostate where lesion is situated?

  • There are 24 sectors in Sweden, but not sure they’re internationally recognised. May be not universal.

  • Can use Anatomical location archetype, ‘Prostate’ in element Body site name, and use the ‘Specific site’ to carry the sector. Can use SCT codes or other terminologies. Alternatively add the 24 sectors in Sweden in template as a local value set or external terminology, as SCT codes.

  • There are several Snomed CT codes regarding regions of the prostate: SNOMED CT - Region of prostate (ihtsdotools.org)

  • Or specialise the Anatomical location archetype to something in the line of “Anatomical location – Prostate”? This CLUSTER can be reused both for Pathological exam and findings, and in treatment (targeted treatment). Further discussion needed.

  • In which other organs are “Sector” commonly used? These will have similar requirements, and should be handled in the same way.

  • In Norway, Snomed CT codes for quadrant for breast are used

Use Anatomical location two times, once for sector and once for zone and changing

  • body site to “main sector”, and “main zone” respectively

  • specific site to “sector”, and “zone” respectively

image-20250307-091719.png

REVIEW

How to represent PI-RADS?

  • There is a separate archetype for PI-RADS (soon to be published) that can be used in the anomaly-archetype. Clinical Knowledge Manager

Add existing PI-RADS CLUSTER-archetype to anomaly-archetype

image-20250307-091845.png

REVIEW

How to represent PSA-density

 

Create and add PSA density CLUSTER-archetype to Imaging examination of a body structure (prostate)

image-20250307-091824.png

REVIEW

 

 Decisions

  •  December 6th 2024 - Use one single event in imaging examination result-part av template

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