2003 Automated Cancer Registration Workshop

20 February 2003, Novotel, Sheffield

10.00: Arrival, registration and coffee

10.30: Introduction - from specification to reality

10.40: Tumour matching - outline (Chris Carrigan, Richard
Middleton)

• establishing the requirements
• inputs and outputs
• setting the test criteria
• establishing expected results
• running the tests
• evaluating the test results
• improving the performance
• from "bespoke" to "generic"

11.15: Coffee

11.30: How do you match tumours (algorithms)

ONS
Thames Cancer Registry
NYCRIS
Northern Ireland Cancer Registry
South West Cancer Intelligence Service

12.30: Questions

12.45: Lunch

13.30: Evolution vs. revolution

• using an algorithm
• building a test rig
• establishing a multi-disciplinary team

14.00: Moving to conformance

14.15: Round table discussion

15.00: Feedback

15.45: Summary and actions to take away

16.00: Close