NM Image Cardiac Option FT Evaluation

Proposal

NMI with Cardiac Option has been nominated for advancement to Final Text. (Advocate: Steve Nichols) Per the Final Text Process, Items in blue text below warrant Committee discussion.

Technical Committee Checklist

• Are all significant CPs against the profile "closed"

• The following NMI CPs have been addressed. See CP Tracking Spreadsheet

• CP-RAD-110
• CP-RAD-111
• CP-RAD-119
• CP-RAD-117
• CP-RAD-517

• Are all significant CPs against the underlying standards "closed"?

• Yes
• No CPs indicated in trial implementation

• Have all significant comments been CP'd or rejected?

• Yes
• No known comments

• Have all open issues listed in the Supplement been closed?

• Yes

• Have all significant issues at Connectathon been dealt with?

• Yes
• The issue at Connectathon has been getting Modality vendors to test. Lynn checked back on NA and EU Connectathons back to 2010 (those are the years where we can examine actual results on Gazelle Test Management vs. the CAT Results DB). In that time, we have not had a NM Modality participate in a CAT. At Connectathons, we have used a set of Philips images archived here

• Has the Connectathon Project Manager been queried and significant issues addressed?

see above

Technical Committee Consensus

• Recommended for promotion to Final Text April 2024

Planning Committee Checklist

• Has the profile been through a Connectathon in at least two regions?

EU CAT

• 2010 - Philips registered as ID with Cardiac NM option - no partner
• 2011 - no registration for this option
• 2012 - Philips registered as ID with Cardiac NM option and *passed* the test instance for this option using test data from DICOM Central Archive https://gazelle.ihe.net/EU-CAT/test.seam?id=147 (i.e. no "live" partner)
• 2013 - 2021- no registration for this option

NA CAT

• 2012 - Philips registered as ID with Cardiac NM option - no partner
• 2013 - 2021 - no registration for this option

Note: NMI has been tested in Europe and North America.

• 2012 NA 1 Image Display
• 2012 EU 1 Image Display
• 2010 EU 1 Image Display

• Has the profile been successfully tested with all actors at least at one Connectathon?

• Yes

• Have different implementations of each actor in the profile been tested?

• TBD - Lynn to check

• Have all the options been tested successfully at at least one Connectathon?

• No -- CP-RAD-517, balloted and approved for FT in April 2024, introduced a new option: Cardiac NM presentation state option. This specific option has not been tested at an IHE Connectathon; however, the option specified a mandatory grouping with CPI actors and CPI is a final text profile which has been tested for years.

• Are there IHE-provided software testing tools to address all aspects of the profile?

• Yes
• Gazelle EVS DICOM validators

• Have the standards underlying the profile been implemented? In similar use cases? In healthcare? In general IT?

• Yes
• the NM IOD is commonly implemented.

• (Do you have concrete reason to believe that this works robustly in the Real World) / (Are any products available for purchase that implement the profile?)

• Yes, 8 products in IHE Product Registry, (all Philips). AGFA and GE HealthCare products claim the NMI Cardiac Option that are not in the IHE Product Registry.

• Have all issues that may have been raised about the profile been resolved?

• Yes

• Has there been sufficient interest in the profile to generate a one-page overview of the profile

• Yes, see Nuclear Medicine Image *TODO Steve to add option by name to "Details" section