Robust machine learning challenge: An AIFM multicentric competition to spread knowledge, identify common pitfalls and recommend best practice.

Journal: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
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Abstract

PURPOSE: A novel and unconventional approach to a machine learning challenge was designed to spread knowledge, identify robust methods and highlight potential pitfalls about machine learning within the Medical Physics community.

Authors

  • Michele Maddalo
    Servizio di Fisica Sanitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy.
  • Annarita Fanizzi
    Laboratorio di Biostatistica e Bioinformatica, Fisica Sanitaria, I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
  • Nicola Lambri
    IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Medical Physics Unit of Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Department, via Manzoni, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
  • Emiliano Loi
    SC Fisica Sanitaria, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", Meldola, Italy.
  • Marco Branchini
    Medical Physics Department, ASST Valtellina e Alto Lario, Via Stelvio 25, 23100 Sondrio, Italy.
  • Leda Lorenzon
    Medical Physics Department, Bolzano Hospital, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.
  • Alessia Giuliano
    Medical Physics Department, San Luca Hospital, 55100 Lucca, Italy.
  • Leonardo Ubaldi
    Dip. Scienze Biomediche Sperimentali e Cliniche "Mario Serio", Università degli Studi di Firenze,Viale Morgagni, Firenze.
  • Sara Saponaro
    Fisica Sanitaria, Azienda Usl Toscana Nord Ovest, Lucca, Italy.
  • Michele Signoriello
    Fisica Sanitaria, Azienda sanitaria universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Trieste, Italy.
  • Federico Fadda
    Struttura Semplice Dipartimentale Fisica Sanitaria, I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Tumori 'Giovanni Paolo II', Viale Orazio Flacco 65, 70124, Bari, Italy.
  • Gina Belmonte
    Medical Physics Department, San Luca Hospital, 55100 Lucca, Italy.
  • Marco Giannelli
    Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital "Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana", via Roma 67, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
  • Cinzia Talamonti
    Department of Biomedical Experimental Clinical Science "M. Serio", University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
  • Mauro Iori
    Medical Physics, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Italy. Electronic address: mauro.iori@ausl.re.it.
  • Sabina Tangaro
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy. Electronic address: Sonia.Tangaro@ba.infn.it.
  • Raffaella Massafra
    Laboratorio di Biostatistica e Bioinformatica, Fisica Sanitaria, I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
  • Pietro Mancosu
    Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Department, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan-Rozzano, Italy.
  • Michele Avanzo
    Division of Medical Physics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy.