Profiles

Profiles published here have completed one of the QIBA Profile Stages of development and been approved by their Biomarker Committee.

Profiles may be of use at any Stage.

Stage 3: Clinically Feasible (formerly Technically Confirmed) Profiles

• CT Atherosclerosis Biomarkers 2023-03-28
• CT Small Lung Nodule Volume Assessment and Monitoring in Low Dose Screening 2023-12-19

• CT Tumor Volume Change for Advanced Disease 2022-07-21 - Streamlined Profile including Conformance Checklists

• MR Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) of the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) 2022-12-15

• MR Elastography of the Liver 2022-02-14

• PET Amyloid 2022-06-03

• PET/CT FDG SUV for Response to Cancer Therapy, v114, 2023-08-16, contains updated checklist
• PET/CT FDG SUV for Response to Cancer Therapy 2016-11-18

• UPICT Protocol - Oncology FDG-PET CT v2.0 2014-12

• [[Media:QIBA US SWS Profile 02.07.2023-clean version.pdf|US Shear Wave Speed for Liver Fibrosis 2023-02-07]

• Checklists - US SWS Appendix E 2022-04-25
• US SWS Checklist for Clinically Feasible (Technical Confirmation) Site Assessment, 01.26.2023

Stage 2: Consensus Profiles

• CT Lung Density 2020-09-04 (Contains Conformance Checklists, Appendix B) 2020-10-23

• Protocols - Appendix E:CT Lung Density 2019-06-26

• MR DCE Quantification (V.1) 2012-08-08

• MR Dynamic Contrast Susceptibility 2020-10-22

• MR MSK Cartilage for Joint Disease 2021-09-25

• SPECT Ioflupane for Neurodegenerative Disease 2017-06-26

• SPECT Ioflupane for Neurodegenerative Disease 2019-10-15

• Checklists - SPECT Ioflupane

• SPECT-CT: Estimating the Concentration of 99mTc Based Imaging Biomarkers in Large and Small Volumes of Interest Profile 2019-10-21

• US Shear Wave Speed for Liver Fibrosis 2022-04-25

• Checklists - US SWS Appendix E 2022-04-25
• US SWS Checklist for Clinically Feasible (Technical Confirmation) Site Assessment, 01.26.2023

• MRI-Based Proton Density Fat Fraction (PDFF) of the Liver 2023-12-04

• MR DCE-MRI Quantification (DCEMRI-Q) (V.2) 2023-12-06

Stage 1: Public Comment Profiles

Public Comment Submission Form

• Ultrasound Volume Blood Flow (USVBF) 2023-10-05 (comments closed on November 17, 2023)

• fMRI for Sensorimotor Mapping 2017-06-19 (comments closed on December 31, 2017)

Comment Resolutions are posted for Past Public Comments and Past Technical Confirmations.

Tools to aid Biomarker Committees in collating these comments:

• {Public Comment Resolution} - Editor collates all comments into a resolution spreadsheet (see Google Sheet template)
• {Site responses for Stage 3} - Field Test Leader collates all Feedback comments into a Feedback Resolution spreadsheet

QIBA Profiles and Clinical Applications

Format for Citing Profiles

Cite QIBA Profile documents as:

Specific QIBA Biomarker Committee. Specific Profile Title, Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance. Profile Stage. Date. Available from: URL

Example:

QIBA MR Biomarker Committee. MR Elastography of the Liver, Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance. Profile Stage: Consensus. June 6, 2019. Available from: http://qibawiki.rsna.org/index.php/Profiles

Statements of Endorsement

• Industry
• Clinical Sites
• Additional letters of support can be found here

See Also

• How to use QIBA Profiles
• Biomarker Committee pages may also have links to DRAFT Profile documents for the next Stage.
• Profile Conformance describes how sites and products claim conformance to a Profile.
• QIBA Profile Template shows the structure, rationale and content of a Profile (show "All Markup" to see guidance in the Word comments)

• Work Product for Review