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Email Thread from 2-19-08:

Panel

John,

I suggest you take a look at the terms I suggested adding to RadLex below.
Will these terms I propose work for you? In terms of encoding probably of malignancy, I'll ask Pat about whether there's a way to do that in AIM.

Daniel

At 07:52 AM 2/19/2009, Langlotz, Curtis wrote:
>Daniel,
>
>I agree with your comments.  "Likelihood of malignancy" sounds like a
>more general version of BI-RADS, which has worked well in breast
>imaging and I do think we will need in RadLex.  I expect that the
>structured reporting groups focused on oncology will want to
>incorporate something similar into their reports.
>
>Curt
>

> >
> > John,
> >
> > I've looked at your spreadsheet wrt incorporating LIDC terms into
> > Radlex.  I think we can accommodate nearly all the terms, but I'd
> > suggest a few term naming changes to be consistent with other terms
> > in Radlex (Curt--pls look at my comments and I welcome hearing your
> > thoughts)
> >
> > These terms which overlap with some of the LIDC terms are in radlex:
> >
> > Spiculated margin
> > Margin characteristic
> > Lobulated margin
> > Calcification
> >
> > These LIDC terms are not in RadLex:
> >
> > Subtlety
> > Sphericity
> > Texture
> > Internal Structure
> > Likelihood of Malignancy
> >
> > If "subtlety" refers to margin, we could add a term to radlex called
> > "subtle margin"
> > We can also add "spherical", "texture" and "internal substance" to
> > radlex.
> >
> > Likelihood of malignancy doesn't seem to be appropriate for radlex.
> > Curt--did we have a similar term in radlex?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > At 01:13 PM 2/18/2009, Freymann, John (NIH/NCI) [Imaging:C] wrote:
> > >Daniel -
> > >
> > >1.        I've attached an excel spreadsheet containing the caDSR
> > >information for 9 terms from LIDC  we would like to be included in
> > >RADLEX.  Please review and let me know if you need more information.