UPICT
UPICT Concept:
To facilitate the development and maintenance of widely acceptable, consistent imaging protocols (including imaging quality control procedures) for use in clinical trials across a range of disease states, anatomic sites, and imaging modalities:
• to “improve” the contribution of imaging data in clinical trials, including improved statistical power while supporting robust case accrual and decreasing time to study initiation / site activation • to facilitate image data aggregation across trials • to allow the development, optimization, and validation of imaging biomarkers through the participation of imaging scientists and clinical trialists drawn from the broad range of interested constituencies
UPICT Goals:
• Reduce variance related to imaging in the conduct of clinical trials (early and late phase so as to support both translation and clinical indications): – to allow the detection of differences that are a consequence of the intervention under study, not an artifact of the manner in which the imaging is conducted – to support optimization and validation of imaging biomarkers (platforms, agents, algorithms, etc.) • Improve the likelihood that: – clinical imaging studies obtained will comply with clinical trial protocol expectations – clinical trial imaging protocols will “fit” with practice • Potentially provide a subtle impetus to improve standard of care (thereby increasing the chances that pre-enrollment imaging might be used as “baseline” study)
UPICT Objectives:
• Short term – standard imaging protocol template(s) – a web-based workspace and supporting infrastructure to facilitate the submission, vetting, and annotation of Proffered Protocols in a transparent and inclusive manner – a web-based resource library of annotated Proffered Protocols that have been used to support clinical trials within institutions, cooperative groups, and trials consortia that meet a minimum set of criteria – a web-based workspace and infrastructure to facilitate the iterative authoring and periodic review of Consensus Protocols in a transparent and inclusive manner – a web-based environment to facilitate the interaction among clinical trialists and imaging scientists within academia, industry, and agencies • Long(er) term – a web-based resource library of Consensus Protocols that have been subjected to rigorous, transparent, inclusive (yet expert) review and approval that will be updated through an ongoing process
UPICT Process and Template
Workspace and Template Extractions in Progress
- The Workspace is used to facilitate the submission,vetting and annotation of Proffered Protocols and the iterative authoring and periodic review of Consensus Protocols in a transparent and inclusive manner.
- The outline form of the generic Template is posted.
- Web-based workspace and supporting infrastructure; multiple options are available
- The current work on template extractions is available here. Link to Draft Proffered Protocols