American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 263: Standardizing Nomenclatures in Radiation Oncology.

ABSTRACT: A substantial barrier to the single- and multi-institutional aggregation of data to supporting clinical trials, practice quality improvement efforts, and development of big data analytics resource systems is the lack of standardized nomenclatures for expressing dosimetric data. To address this issue, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group 263 was charged with providing nomenclature guidelines and values in radiation oncology for use in clinical trials, data-pooling initiatives, population-based studies, and routine clinical care by standardizing: (1) structure names across image processing and treatment planning system platforms; (2) nomenclature for dosimetric data (eg, dose-volume histogram [DVH]-based metrics); (3) templates for clinical trial groups and us

SUBMITTER: Mayo CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437157 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature