A transfer learning approach to facilitate ComBat-based harmonization of multicentre radiomic features in new datasets

R Da-Ano, F Lucia, I Masson, R Abgral, J Alfieri… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Purpose To facilitate the demonstration of the prognostic value of radiomics, multicenter
radiomics studies are needed. Pooling radiomic features of such data in a statistical analysis …

Performance comparison of modified ComBat for harmonization of radiomic features for multicenter studies

R Da-Ano, I Masson, F Lucia, M Doré, P Robin… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Multicenter studies are needed to demonstrate the clinical potential value of radiomics as a
prognostic tool. However, variability in scanner models, acquisition protocols and …

[HTML][HTML] AutoComBat: a generic method for harmonizing MRI-based radiomic features

A Carré, E Battistella, S Niyoteka, R Sun, E Deutsch… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The use of multicentric data is becoming essential for developing generalizable radiomic
signatures. In particular, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data used in brain oncology …

Minimising multi-centre radiomics variability through image normalisation: a pilot study

VM Campello, C Martín-Isla, C Izquierdo, A Guala… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Radiomics is an emerging technique for the quantification of imaging data that has recently
shown great promise for deeper phenotyping of cardiovascular disease. Thus far, the …

Improved generalized ComBat methods for harmonization of radiomic features

H Horng, A Singh, B Yousefi, EA Cohen, B Haghighi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Radiomic approaches in precision medicine are promising, but variation associated with
image acquisition factors can result in severe biases and low generalizability. Multicenter …

Generalized ComBat harmonization methods for radiomic features with multi-modal distributions and multiple batch effects

H Horng, A Singh, B Yousefi, EA Cohen, B Haghighi… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Radiomic features have a wide range of clinical applications, but variability due to image
acquisition factors can affect their performance. The harmonization tool ComBat is a …

Harmonization strategies for multicenter radiomics investigations

R Da-Ano, D Visvikis, M Hatt - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Carrying out large multicenter studies is one of the key goals to be achieved towards a faster
transfer of the radiomics approach in the clinical setting. This requires large-scale radiomics …

The application of a workflow integrating the variable reproducibility and harmonizability of radiomic features on a phantom dataset

A Ibrahim, T Refaee, RTH Leijenaar, S Primakov… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Radiomics–the high throughput extraction of quantitative features from medical images and
their correlation with clinical and biological endpoints-is the subject of active and extensive …

Making radiomics more reproducible across scanner and imaging protocol variations: a review of harmonization methods

SA Mali, A Ibrahim, HC Woodruff… - Journal of personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Radiomics converts medical images into mineable data via a high-throughput extraction of
quantitative features used for clinical decision support. However, these radiomic features are …

Harmonization strategies in multicenter MRI-based radiomics

E Stamoulou, C Spanakis, GC Manikis, G Karanasiou… - Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radiomics analysis is a powerful tool aiming to provide diagnostic and prognostic patient
information directly from images that are decoded into handcrafted features, comprising …