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 …

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 …

Standardization of brain MR images across machines and protocols: bridging the gap for MRI-based radiomics

A Carré, G Klausner, M Edjlali, M Lerousseau… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Radiomics relies on the extraction of a wide variety of quantitative image-based features to
provide decision support. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributes to the …

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 …

[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 …

Radiomics feature robustness as measured using an MRI phantom

J Lee, A Steinmann, Y Ding, H Lee, C Owens… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Radiomics involves high-throughput extraction of large numbers of quantitative features from
medical images and analysis of these features to predict patients' outcome and support …

Evaluation of conventional and deep learning based image harmonization methods in radiomics studies

F Tixier, V Jaouen, C Hognon, O Gallinato… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. To evaluate the impact of image harmonization on outcome prediction models
using radiomics. Approach. 234 patients from the Brain Tumor Image Segmentation …

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 …

How can we combat multicenter variability in MR radiomics? Validation of a correction procedure

F Orlhac, A Lecler, J Savatovski, J Goya-Outi… - European …, 2021 - Springer
Objective Test a practical realignment approach to compensate the technical variability of
MR radiomic features. Methods T1 phantom images acquired on 2 scanners, FLAIR and …

A novel benchmarking approach to assess the agreement among radiomic tools

A Bettinelli, F Marturano, M Avanzo, E Loi, E Menghi… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background The translation of radiomic models into clinical practice is hindered by the
limited reproducibility of features across software and studies. Standardization is needed to …