Health informatics — Datasets and data structure for clinical and biological evaluation metrics in radiotherapy

Various types of radiotherapy treatment modalities are available for cancer care. As a result, there is a growing need for objective schemes to help select appropriate treatments for individual patients. One possible option involves the use of clinical and biological evaluation metrics (CBEMs) which are associated with a certain radiotherapy treatment plan for a patient.

This document reports on the datasets and a data structure for reporting CBEMs. It applies to CBEMs for external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) modalities, but not CBEMs for brachytherapy or molecular radiotherapy.

Main sections:

· Scope

· CBEMs in EBRT

· CBEMs

· Use case of CBEMs

· Existing data format for CBEMs

· Datasets and data structure for a CBEM

· Annex A: Example of a CBEM model and related data elements