Robustness of radiomic features in magnetic resonance imaging: review and a phantom study

Abstract Radiomic analysis has exponentially increased the amount of quantitative data that can be extracted from a single image. These imaging biomarkers can aid in the generation of prediction models aimed to further personalized medicine. However, the generalizability of the model is dependent on the robustness of these features. The purpose of this study is to review the current literature regarding robustness of radiomic features on magnetic resonance imaging. Additionally, a phantom study is performed to systematically evaluate the behavior of radiomic features under various conditions (signal to noise ratio, region of interest delineation, voxel size change and normalization methods) using intraclass correlation coefficients. The features extracted in this phantom study include first order, shape, gray level cooccurrence matrix and gray level run length matrix. Many features are found to be non-robust to changing parameters. Feature robustness assessment prior to feature selection, especially in the case of combining multi-institutional data, may be warranted. Further investigation is needed in this area of research.

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