Radiomics: The bridge between medical imaging and personalized medicine

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 749-762

  Lambin, Philippe ^a   Leijenaar, Ralph T H ^a   Deist, Timo M ^a   Peerlings, Jurgen ^a   De Jong, Evelyn E C ^a   Van Timmeren, Janita ^a   Sanduleanu, Sebastian ^a   Larue, Ruben T H M ^a   Even, Aniek J G ^a   Jochems, Arthur ^a   Van Wijk, Yvonka ^a   Woodruff, Henry ^a   Van Soest, Johan ^a   Lustberg, Tim ^a   Roelofs, Erik ^a   Van Elmpt, Wouter ^a   Dekker, Andre ^a   Mottaghy, Felix M ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a,b   Walsh, Sean ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA EXTRACTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOMICS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LUNG CANCER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; ONTOLOGY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGENOMICS; RADIOMICS; RADIOMICS QUALITY SCORE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKFLOW; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MASS COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; PRECISION MEDICINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 85032486732     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2017.141     Document Type: Review

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