Synopsis

Better standardization, transparency and sharing practices are required in the radiomics community to improve the quality and reproducibility of published studies and to achieve faster clinical translation. In this course, emphasis will be put on the presentation of the standardized radiomics workflow defined by the Image Biomarker Standardisation Initiative (IBSI), a group of more than 55 researchers from 19 institutions in 8 countries. Since 2016, the IBSI has put efforts into standardizing both the computation of radiomics features and the image-processing steps required before feature extraction. This standardized workflow along with consensual benchmark values could serve as a calibration tool for future radiomics investigations. Finally, radiomics methods specific to MRI will also be presented in this course.