Journal Article DKFZ-2025-01689

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In vivo variability of MRI radiomics features in prostate lesions assessed by a test-retest study with repositioning.

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2025
Springer Nature [London]

Scientific reports 15(1), 29703 () [10.1038/s41598-025-09989-7]
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Abstract: Despite academic success, radiomics-based machine learning algorithms have not reached clinical practice, partially due to limited repeatability/reproducibility. To address this issue, this work aims to identify a stable subset of radiomics features in prostate MRI for radiomics modelling. A prospective study was conducted in 43 patients who received a clinical MRI examination and a research exam with repetition of T2-weighted and two different diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequences with repositioning in between. Radiomics feature (RF) extraction was performed from MRI segmentations accounting for intra-rater and inter-rater effects, and three different image normalization methods were compared. Stability of RFs was assessed using the concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) for different comparisons: rater effects, inter-scan (before and after repositioning) and inter-sequence (between the two diffusion-weighted sequences) variability. In total, only 64 out of 321 (~ 20%) extracted features demonstrated stability, defined as CCC ≥ 0.75 in all settings (5 high-b value, 7 ADC- and 52 T2-derived features). For DWI, primarily intensity-based features proved stable with no shape feature passing the CCC threshold. T2-weighted images possessed the largest number of stable features with multiple shape (7), intensity-based (7) and texture features (28). Z-score normalization for high-b value images and muscle-normalization for T2-weighted images were identified as suitable.

Keyword(s): Magnetic resonance imaging ; Observer variation ; Prostate ; Radiomics ; Reproducibility of results

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Note: #EA:E010#LA:E010#

Contributing Institute(s):
  1. E010 Radiologie (E010)
  2. C060 Biostatistik (C060)
  3. E230 Medizinische Bildverarbeitung (E230)
  4. NWG KKE Multiparametrische Methoden zur Früherkennung des Prostatakarzinoms (E250)
Research Program(s):
  1. 315 - Bildgebung und Radioonkologie (POF4-315) (POF4-315)

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