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ReviewCancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society2020

How to develop a meaningful radiomic signature for clinical use in oncologic patients.

Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Celso Matos, Dow Mu Koh

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Review in Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Role of Radiomics to Predict Disease Recurrence in Sinonasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2026
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  9. Radiomics in thyroid nodule assessment.BMC medical imaging · 2026
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  11. Radiomics in spinal research: a narrative review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nikolaos PapanikolaouComputational Clinical Imaging Group, Champalimaud Foundation, Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, Doca de Pedrouços, 1400-038, Lisbon, Portugal. nickolas.papanikolaou@research.fchampalimaud.org.
Celso MatosDepartment of Radiology, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.
Dow Mu KohDepartment of Radiology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the last decade, there is an increasing usage of quantitative methods in Radiology in an effort to reduce the diagnostic variability associated with a subjective manner of radiological interpretation. Combined approaches where visual assessment made by the radiologist is augmented by quantitative imaging biomarkers are gaining attention. Advances in machine learning resulted in the rise of radiomics that is a new methodology referring to the extraction of quantitative information from medical images. Radiomics are based on the development of computational models, referred to as "Radiomic Signatures", trying to address either unmet clinical needs, mostly in the field of oncologic imaging, or to compare radiomics performance with that of radiologists. However, to explore this new technology, initial publications did not consider best practices in the field of machine learning resulting in publications with questionable clinical value. In this paper, our effort was concentrated on how to avoid methodological mistakes and consider critical issues in the workflow of the development of clinically meaningful radiomic signatures.

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HumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMachine LearningNeoplasmsPractice Guidelines as TopicMachine learningQuantitative imagingRadiomics

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PMID32357923
PMCPMC7195800

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