Big Data Readiness in Radiation Oncology: An Efficient Approach for Relabeling Radiation Therapy Structures With Their TG-263 Standard Name in Real-World Data Sets.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To prepare for big data analyses on radiation therapy data, we developed Stature, a tool-supported approach for standardization of structure names in existing radiation therapy plans. We applied the widely endorsed nomenclature standard TG-263 as the mapping target and quantified the structure name inconsistency in 2 real-world data sets.

Methods and materials

The clinically relevant structures in the radiation therapy plans were identified by reference to randomized controlled trials. The Stature approach was used by clinicians to identify the synonyms for each relevant structure, which was then mapped to the corresponding TG-263 name. We applied Stature to standardize the structure names for 654 patients with prostate cancer (PCa) and 224 patients with head

SUBMITTER: Schuler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6349627 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature