This is the most recent structured information on this project. Complementary data can be found on previous documents
CONQUEST
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Updated: Aug 26, 1998 |
This is the most recent structured information on this project. Complementary data can be found on previous documents | |
CONQUEST
Clinical oncology network for quality in European standards of treatment | |
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More specifically, the objectives of the project are:
To develop a generic quality assurance tool which provides guidance for the treating physician from the latest, approved treatment protocols and which offers access to relevant data.
To develop and validate imaging applications which assist medical specialists in reaching the correct tumour extension through the use of high-quality tools.
To develop special imaging techniques for improvement and enhanced assessment of the quality of a given oncological treatment.
To provide possibilities for supporting internal and external audit through techniques which offer indication of staging and treatment data in standardised formats for all involved medical specialists.
To ensure that the above objectives are reached, clinicians and other medical professional users have been - and will continue to be - responsible for specifying the contents of the applications, and the software developers will implement these specifications in close co-operation with the end users. This means that the clinical partners are closely involved in the application development process - from the initial analyses of user requirements to the final adjustments of the tools. The tools developed in the project will be validated by some of the leading cancer treatment centres in Europe.
For the sole purpose of effectively managing the project, the project has been divided into two project lines: Quality Management and Imaging. The primary objectives of the two project lines are as follows: Quality Management will use telematics and multimedia workstations to ensure that the latest, approved protocols for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are distributed and made ready for use by the participating centres.
Imaging aims at enhancing the diagnostic and quality assurance potential of the various imaging modalities now available (mammography, MR, CT, SPECT, ultrasound, verification imaging) by implementing image processing and integration techniques for treatment preparation, execution and evaluation.
Although the methods and applications apply to breast cancer treatment, they will be based on a generic approach which will be applicable to other medical fields. The reason for choosing breast cancer as the initial medical area is that it is one of the most well documented medical fields.
Management Reports (2,4,6,8,10,12 months) R
Audit Report (6 months) R
Report on relevant existing software components (6 months) R
Analysis of data, funtionality and data integration (9 months) R
Description of data model, functional design and interface
specifications (12 months) R
User requirements (9 months) R
Functional specifications of integration platform (6 months) R
Review of commercial application builder tools (6 months) R
Functional specifications of image processing modules (9 months) R
Functional specifications of user interface elements (12 months) R
Software for public access R
Year 2
Functional specification of workstations (18 months) R
Software for diagnostic image handling (18 months) R
Review of commercial application builder tools (24 months) R
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