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Radiomics: an Introductory Guide to What It May Foretell

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

To briefly review the radiomics concept, its applications, and challenges in oncology in the era of precision medicine.

Recent Findings

Over the last 5 years, more than 500 studies have evaluated the role of radiomics to predict tumor diagnosis, genetic pattern, tumor response to therapy, and survival in multiple cancers. This new post-processing method is aimed at extracting multiple quantitative features from the image and converting them into mineable data.

Summary

Radiomics models developed have shown promising results and may play a role in the near future in the daily patient management especially to assess tumor heterogeneity acting as a whole tumor virtual biopsy. For now, radiomics is limited by its lack of standardization; future challenges will be to provide robust and reproducible metrics extracted from large multicenter databases.

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Nougaret, S., Tibermacine, H., Tardieu, M. et al. Radiomics: an Introductory Guide to What It May Foretell. Curr Oncol Rep 21, 70 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-019-0815-1

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