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American Society of Clinical Oncology, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 7, 2023

DOI: 10.1200/cci.23.00101

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MI-Common Data Model: Extending Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership-Common Data Model (OMOP-CDM) for Registering Medical Imaging Metadata and Subsequent Curation Processes

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Abstract

PURPOSE The explosion of big data and artificial intelligence has rapidly increased the need for integrated, homogenized, and harmonized health data. Many common data models (CDMs) and standard vocabularies have appeared in an attempt to offer harmonized access to the available information, with Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP)-CDM being one of the most prominent ones, allowing the standardization and harmonization of health care information. However, despite its flexibility, still capturing imaging metadata along with the corresponding clinical data continues to pose a challenge. This challenge arises from the absence of a comprehensive standard representation for image-related information and subsequent image curation processes and their interlinkage with the respective clinical information. Successful resolution of this challenge holds the potential to enable imaging and clinical data to become harmonized, quality-checked, annotated, and ready to be used in conjunction, in the development of artificial intelligence models and other data-dependent use cases. METHODS To address this challenge, we introduce medical imaging (MI)-CDM—an extension of the OMOP-CDM specifically designed for registering medical imaging data and curation-related processes. Our modeling choices were the result of iterative numerous discussions among clinical and AI experts to enable the integration of imaging and clinical data in the context of the ProCAncer-I project, for answering a set of clinical questions across the prostate cancer's continuum. RESULTS Our MI-CDM extension has been successfully implemented for the use case of prostate cancer for integrating imaging and curation metadata along with clinical information by using the OMOP-CDM and its oncology extension. CONCLUSION By using our proposed terminologies and standardized attributes, we demonstrate how diverse imaging modalities can be seamlessly integrated in the future.