Process Coordinating Committee

Chairs: Kevin O'Donnell (Chair); Dan Sullivan, MD (Vice-chair)

Secretary: Susan Weinmann (RSNA Staff)

Roster: <link to roster of active attendees and who has voting privileges>

Scope

The Process Committee facilitates the QIBA Coordinating Committees and their profiling activities by defining processes and tools to promote consistent quality work product.

• Develop common Templates & Processes
• Support & mentor adoption of above
• Drive consistent content & format of Profiles
• Support infrastructure for Committees

Meetings

• Upcoming: Biweekly Tcons, Wednesdays @ 3-4pm Central Time <link to calendar of meetings>
• Summaries of Past Calls/Meetings

Current Work

• Complete Claim Guidance document
• Process/best practices for initial literature search around a new biomarker/profile

• Round 6 proposal submitted to pursue this in more detail - revisit after June 16 call

• QIBA Wiki Improvements
• On-boarding/indoctrination process and materials for new committees and members

• Joe's intro email, current template and stage docs, QIBA Fact Sheet
• Could use a "fresh eyes"/newcomer commentary

• Support adoption of the updated Profile Template.
• Sunset procedure for retiring Task Forces and Biomarker Committees that have completed their work.

• Sketch up publication process for Official Docs (CC approval vote, send to RSNA Staff)

• Write up Standard Approval Practices for committee documents

• Quality check mechanism, voting mechanism

• Start simple with this and add complexity only as needed.
• Address relationship between wiki content (current, easy to update) and website content (authoritative, stable)

• Likely RSNA staff will periodically mirror wiki content up onto the website; address this in publication process.

• "How to develop a Profile" Guidance
• Harmonize assessment procedures across profiles
• Refine process for QIBA Conformance Statements

• Should QIBA get into hosting the Conformance Statements on our site (and then we could link to them from the Profiles page which would be very handy)
• Consider the RSNA Image Share Conformance Assessment Program and whether we should do something similar for QIBA

• Process committee can think through the details of a process and confer with RSNA whether they would be interested

• Propose conventions for Profile editions/versions
• Methodology/Study Design guidance/requirements for achieving "Clinically Confirmed"
• Propose policy/process to consider Prior Project completion when Steering Cmte reviews new Proposals from the same PI.

• timing overlap of prior cycle completion period with new proposal period needs to be one considered.
• possible solution would require final reports for prior COMPLETED funding cycles before considering a new project proposal

• Propose change tracking process
• Guidelines for Reference Implementations and commercial products in Profiles (underlying algorithm available, list all comers, non-commercial?, etc).
• Guidelines for assessment procedures to vet SW in Profiles
• Clarity QIBA Profile vs UPICT Protocol (Venn Diagram)

Working Documents

Profile Stages

• QIBA Profile Stages 2016.04.12
• QIBA Profile Stages page

Wiki Layout

• Use Cases - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bVP9pSjxtCVinlASCAeGDf5vjc2lCfj16qEg7hkft0Q/edit?usp=sharing

See Also

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