Goal: Artificial intelligence applied to medical image analysis has been extensively used to develop non-invasive diagnostic and prognostic signatures. However, these imaging biomarkers should be largely validated on multi-center datasets to prove their robustness before they can be introduced into clinical practice. The main challenge is represented by the great and unavoidable image variability which is usually addressed using different pre-processing techniques including spatial, intensity and feature normalization. The purpose of this study is to systematically summarize normalization methods and to evaluate their correlation with the radiomics model performances through meta-analyses. This review is carried out according to the PRISMA statement: 4777 papers were collected, but only 74 were included. Two meta-analyses were carried out according to two clinical aims: characterization and prediction of response. Findings of this review demonstrated that there are some commonly used normalization approaches, but not a commonly agreed pipeline that can allow to improve performance and to bridge the gap between bench and bedside.

Normalization strategies in multi-center radiomics abdominal MRI: systematic review and meta-analyses / Panic, Jovana; Defeudis, Arianna; Balestra, Gabriella; Giannini, Valentina; Rosati, Samanta. - In: IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY. - ISSN 2644-1276. - ELETTRONICO. - 4:(2023), pp. 67-76. [10.1109/OJEMB.2023.3271455]

Normalization strategies in multi-center radiomics abdominal MRI: systematic review and meta-analyses

Panic, Jovana;Balestra, Gabriella;Giannini, Valentina;Rosati, Samanta
2023

Abstract

Goal: Artificial intelligence applied to medical image analysis has been extensively used to develop non-invasive diagnostic and prognostic signatures. However, these imaging biomarkers should be largely validated on multi-center datasets to prove their robustness before they can be introduced into clinical practice. The main challenge is represented by the great and unavoidable image variability which is usually addressed using different pre-processing techniques including spatial, intensity and feature normalization. The purpose of this study is to systematically summarize normalization methods and to evaluate their correlation with the radiomics model performances through meta-analyses. This review is carried out according to the PRISMA statement: 4777 papers were collected, but only 74 were included. Two meta-analyses were carried out according to two clinical aims: characterization and prediction of response. Findings of this review demonstrated that there are some commonly used normalization approaches, but not a commonly agreed pipeline that can allow to improve performance and to bridge the gap between bench and bedside.
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