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Scope of Specimen Project

The scope of the project is to:

Topic leads:

Dates: Every other Thursday, starting Feb 16, 2012
- Time: 12:00 - 13:00 EST
Phone: +1 770-657-9270
- Passcode: 653212
Webex: http://www.mymeetings.com/siemens/nc/join.php?i=741301183&p=&t=c
- Passcode: HL7OO
List Serve: specimen@hl7.lists.org

Clinical Sequencing Project - Identified Use Cases to Consider in Specimen CMET - from CG ClinSeq.doc
Specimen Use Case for Isolate Representation
Medical Research Use Case and Specimen Core Diagram Media:Specimen-Core Model Diagram and Medical Research Use Case Process Flow.xls
Origin of Specimen
- Need to indicate whether the specimen is human, animal, soil, etc.
- For viral genetics where DNA/RNA can be extracted from a micro-organism.
Notes from May WGM
- II perspective mainly interested in specimen in context of interventional imaging
- An introduction to the DICOM specimen information model is available in DICOM Part 17 (available free at ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2011/11_17pu.pdf) Annex NN.
- Detailed specimen information can be found in DICOM Part 3 (available free at ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2011/11_03pu.pdf). This information that has been specified by DICOM WG26 "Pathology" (DICOM Supplement 122 "Specimen Identification and Revised Pathology" Project) should be taken into consideration in the project.

snapshot of Draft Model as of October 18 conference call (draft model on the left, excerpts from NCI LSDAM on the right):