Open-radiomics: a collection of standardized datasets and a technical protocol for reproducible radiomics machine learning pipelines.

Journal: BMC medical imaging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: As an important branch of machine learning pipelines in medical imaging, radiomics faces two major challenges namely reproducibility and accessibility. In this work, we introduce open-radiomics, a set of radiomics datasets along with a comprehensive radiomics pipeline based on our proposed technical protocol to investigate the effects of radiomics feature extraction on the reproducibility of the results.

Authors

  • Khashayar Namdar
    Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Matthias W Wagner
    Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Birgit B Ertl-Wagner
    From the Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Dr, Madison, WI 53792 (D.A.B., M.L.S.); Department of Radiology, New York University, New York, NY (L.M.); Department of Musculoskeletal Radiology (M.A.B.) and Institute for Technology Assessment (E.F.H.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Medical Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (B.B.E.W.); Department of Radiology, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, Calif (K.J.F.); Department of Cancer Imaging, Division of Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering, Kings College London, London, England (V.J.G.); Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif (C.P.H.); and Department of Radiology and Radiologic Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.R.W.).
  • Farzad Khalvati
    Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada. farzad.khalvati@utoronto.ca.