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ArticleCancers2022

MaasPenn Radiomics Reproducibility Score: A Novel Quantitative Measure for Evaluating the Reproducibility of CT-Based Handcrafted Radiomic Features.

Abdalla Ibrahim, Bruno Barufaldi, Turkey Refaee, Telmo M Silva Filho, Raymond J Acciavatti, Zohaib Salahuddin, Roland Hustinx, Felix M Mottaghy, Andrew D A Maidment, Philippe Lambin

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Abdalla IbrahimThe D-Lab, Department of Precision Medicine, GROW-School for Oncology, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4138-5755
Bruno BarufaldiDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Turkey RefaeeThe D-Lab, Department of Precision Medicine, GROW-School for Oncology, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6605-1845
Telmo M Silva FilhoDepartment of Statistics, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa 58051-900, Brazil.
Raymond J AcciavattiDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4822-3353
Zohaib SalahuddinThe D-Lab, Department of Precision Medicine, GROW-School for Oncology, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Roland HustinxDivision of Nuclear Medicine and Oncological Imaging, Department of Medical Physics, CHU de Liege, CRC In Vivo Imaging, University of Liège, 4000 Liege, Belgium.
Felix M MottaghyDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center+, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7212-6521
Andrew D A MaidmentDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Philippe LambinThe D-Lab, Department of Precision Medicine, GROW-School for Oncology, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7961-0191

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The reproducibility of handcrafted radiomic features (HRFs) has been reported to be affected by variations in imaging parameters, which significantly affect the generalizability of developed signatures and translation to clinical practice. However, the collective effect of the variations in imaging parameters on the reproducibility of HRFs remains unclear, with no objective measure to assess it in the absence of reproducibility analysis. We assessed these effects of variations in a large number of scenarios and developed the first quantitative score to assess the reproducibility of CT-based HRFs without the need for phantom or reproducibility studies. We further assessed the potential of image resampling and ComBat harmonization for removing these effects. Our findings suggest a need for radiomics-specific harmonization methods. Our developed score should be considered as a first attempt to introduce comprehensive metrics to quantify the reproducibility of CT-based handcrafted radiomic features. More research is warranted to demonstrate its validity in clinical contexts and to further improve it, possibly by the incorporation of more realistic situations, which better reflect real patients' situations.

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ComBatharmonizationradiomics reproducibility

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PMID35406372
PMCPMC8997100

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