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Radiomics and radiogenomics are attractive research topics in prostate cancer. Radiomics mainly focuses on extraction of quantitative information from medical imaging, whereas radiogenomics aims to correlate these imaging features to genomic data. The purpose of this review is to provide a brief overview summarizing recent progress in the application of radiomics-based approaches in prostate cancer and to discuss the potential role of radiogenomics in prostate cancer.
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Smith, C.P., Czarniecki, M., Mehralivand, S. et al. Radiomics and radiogenomics of prostate cancer. Abdom Radiol 44, 2021–2029 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-018-1660-7
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