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ArticleAn international journal on information fusion2022

Data harmonisation for information fusion in digital healthcare: A state-of-the-art systematic review, meta-analysis and future research directions.

Yang Nan, Javier Del Ser, Simon Walsh, Carola Schönlieb, Michael Roberts, Ian Selby, Kit Howard, John Owen, Jon Neville, Julien Guiot and 16 more

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Article in An international journal on information fusion, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Yang NanNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, Northern Ireland UK.
Javier Del SerDepartment of Communications Engineering, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao 48013, Spain.
Simon WalshNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, Northern Ireland UK.
Carola SchönliebDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Northern Ireland UK.
Michael RobertsDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Northern Ireland UK.
Ian SelbyDepartment of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Northern Ireland UK.
Kit HowardClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Austin, TX, United States of America.
John OwenClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Austin, TX, United States of America.
Jon NevilleClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Austin, TX, United States of America.
Julien GuiotUniversity Hospital of Liège (CHU Liège), Respiratory medicine department, Liège, Belgium.
Benoit ErnstUniversity Hospital of Liège (CHU Liège), Respiratory medicine department, Liège, Belgium.
Ana PastorQUIBIM, Valencia, Spain.
Angel Alberich-BayarriQUIBIM, Valencia, Spain.
Marion I MenzelTechnische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany.
Sean WalshRadiomics (Oncoradiomics SA), Liège, Belgium.
Wim VosRadiomics (Oncoradiomics SA), Liège, Belgium.
Nina FlerinRadiomics (Oncoradiomics SA), Liège, Belgium.
Jean-Paul CharbonnierThirona, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Eva van RikxoortThirona, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Avishek ChatterjeeDepartment of Precision Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Henry WoodruffDepartment of Precision Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Philippe LambinDepartment of Precision Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Leonor Cerdá-AlberichMedical Imaging Department, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
Luis Martí-BonmatíMedical Imaging Department, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
Francisco HerreraDepartment of Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI) University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Guang YangNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, Northern Ireland UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_21013Medical Research Council MR/V023799/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Removing the bias and variance of multicentre data has always been a challenge in large scale digital healthcare studies, which requires the ability to integrate clinical features extracted from data acquired by different scanners and protocols to improve stability and robustness. Previous studies have described various computational approaches to fuse single modality multicentre datasets. However, these surveys rarely focused on evaluation metrics and lacked a checklist for computational data harmonisation studies. In this systematic review, we summarise the computational data harmonisation approaches for multi-modality data in the digital healthcare field, including harmonisation strategies and evaluation metrics based on different theories. In addition, a comprehensive checklist that summarises common practices for data harmonisation studies is proposed to guide researchers to report their research findings more effectively. Last but not least, flowcharts presenting possible ways for methodology and metric selection are proposed and the limitations of different methods have been surveyed for future research.

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data harmonisationdata standardisationdomain adaptationInformation fusionreproducibility

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PMID35664012
PMCPMC8878813

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