20K Distributed Learning Challenge

NCT ID: NCT03564457

Last Updated: 2019-03-08

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

20000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-07-01

Study Completion Date

2018-10-01

Brief Summary

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Machine learn a predictive model from more than 20.000 non-small cell lung cancer patients from more than 5 health care providers from more than 5 countries.

Detailed Description

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All current innovations in medicine, including personalized medicine; artificial intelligence; (Big) data driven medicine; learning health care system; value based health care and decision support systems, rely on the sharing of data across health care providers. But sharing of data is hampered by administrative, political, ethical and technical barriers(Sullivan et al., 2011). This limits the amount of health data available for the above innovations and life sciences in general as well as other secondary uses such as quality improvement.

The investigators hypothesize that sharing questions rather than sharing data is a better approach and can unlock orders of magnitude more data while limiting privacy and other concerns. An infrastructure to bring questions to the data has been demonstrated to work recently in project such as euroCAT(Lambin et al., 2013; Deist et al., 2017), Datashield (Gaye et al., 2014) and OHDSI (Hripcsak et al., 2015). However, the scale of the prior work has been limited in terms of the number of data subjects, number of data providers and global coverage.

In the experience of the investigators, the main challenges of scaling up the infrastructure are 1) the effort necessary to make data FAIR at each site ("stations"), 2) the technical and legal governance ("track") and 3) the mathematics and engineering of learning applications ("trains") - together called the Personal Health Train (PHT) infrastructure. Since multiple years a global consortium of healthcare providers, scientists and commercial parties called CORAL (Community in Oncology for RApid Learning) have worked on all three PHT challenges.

The aim of this study is to show that the PHT distributed learning infrastructure can be scaled to many 1000s of patients, specifically the investigators aim to machine learn a predictive model from more than 20.000 non-small cell lung cancer patients from more than 5 health care providers from more than 5 countries.

Conditions

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Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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One group of 20.000 patients

No interventions will take place as this is an observational study

No interventions will take place (observational)

Intervention Type OTHER

No interventions will take place (observational)

Interventions

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No interventions will take place (observational)

No interventions will take place (observational)

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Non small cell lung cancer
* Treated in one of the participating hospitals

Exclusion Criteria

* No non small cell lung cancer
* Not treated in one of the participating centers
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Radboud University Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Netherlands Cancer Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Fudan University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Velindre Cancer Center

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Cardiff University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Maastricht Radiation Oncology

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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André Dekker, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Maastro Clinic, The Netherlands

Locations

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MAASTRO clinic

Maastricht, , Netherlands

Site Status

Countries

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Netherlands

Other Identifiers

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20K Distributed Learning

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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