2009 Profile Template Sketch

<<Notes to the editor are shown in italics and angle brackets. When using the template, please substitute appropriate text and delete the angle brackets and surrounding single quote marks.>>

Profile: <<Insert Profile Name>>

This document presents a QIBA Profile for <<Insert Profile Name>>.

Utilities and Indications

<<Should this be where the Claims are recorded?>>

<<Describe what can be accomplished by sites that deploy this profile, and what it is intended to be used for.>>

Actors and Activities

QIBA has defined the actors and activities in the following table as being necessary to achieving the Claims (or Utilities) described above.

To deploy this Profile, a site must have a compliant person, device or software to take the part of each actor.

To be compliant as a certain actor, a person, device or software must support each of the activities listed for the actor in the following table. The detailed requirements for each activity are documented below.

Actor	Required Activities
Acquisition Modality	Acquisition System Calibration Image Acquisition Image Reconstruction Image Distribution
Measurement System	Image Distribution Measurement Measurement Distribution
Reporting System	Image Distribution Measurement Distribution
Radiologist	Measurement Interpretation
Modality Tech.	Acquisition System Calibration Image Acquisition

Process Flow

<<Sequence Diagram showing how the order/interaction of the Activities>>

<<Would this be a good place for timing relationships? At least by reference?>>

<<Additional description of high-level issues and workflow>>

Activity Definitions

Activity definitions list each of the actors that participates in an Activity and what each is required to do to be considered compliant. Requirements generally cover the inputs actors must accept, the outputs they must produce and the methods they must support, including relevant data formats and semantics.

Activity: Image Post Processing

<<subsequent modification of the reconstructed images>>

Activity: Image Distribution

<<archiving and/or conveying the images to other systems>>

Activity: Analysis/Measurement

<<generation of information and metrics (e.g. tumor volumes) from the images>>

Activity: Measurement Distribution

<<archiving and/or conveying the measurements to other systems>>

Activity: Interpretation

<<judgements, findings, conclusions>>

Activity: Reporting

<<Details that should go into the report. Structure/format?>>