The Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative validated consensus-based reference values for 169 radiomics features, thus enabling calibration and verification of radiomics software. Key results: • research teams found agreement for calculation of 169 radiomics features derived from a digital phantom and a human lung cancer on CT scan. • Of these 169 candidate radiomics features, good to excellent reproducibility was achieved for 167 radiomics features using MRI, 18F-FDG PET and CT images obtained in 51 patients with soft-tissue sarcoma.

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Conflicts of Interest:The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest. Abstract PurposeConsiderable progress has been made in assessment and management of NSCLC patients based on mutation status in the EGFR and KRAS. At the same time, NSCLC management through KRAS and EGFR mutation profiling faces some challenges. In the present work, we aimed to evaluate a comprehensive radiomics framework that enabled prediction of EGFR and KRAS mutation status in NSCLC cancer patients based on low dose CT, diagnostic CT, PET modalities radiomic features and machine learning (ML) algorithms. MethodsOur study involved NSCLC cancer patient with 186 PET, and 175 low dose CT and CTD images. More than twenty thousand radiomic features from different image-feature sets were extracted. Conventional clinically used standard uptake value (SUV) parameters were also obtained for PET images. Feature value was normalized to obtain Z-scores, followed by student t-test students for comparison, high correlated features were eliminated and the False discovery rate (FDR) correction were performed and q-value were reported for univariate analysis. Six feature selection methods and twelve classifiers were used to predict gene status in patient. We performed 10-fold cross-validation for model tuning to improve robustness and all model evaluation was reported on independent validation sets (68 patients). The mean area under the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was obtained for performance evaluation. ResultsThe best predictive power of conventional PET parameters was achieved by SUVpeak (AUC: 0.69, P-value = 0.0002) and MTV (AUC: 0.55, P-value = 0.0011) for EGFR and KRAS, respectively. Univariate analysis of extracted radiomics features improved prediction power up to AUC: 75 (q-value: 0.003, Short Run Emphasis feature of GLRLM from LOG preprocessed image of PET with sigma value 1.5) and AUC: 0.71 (q-value 0.00005, The Large Dependence Low Gray Level Emphasis from GLDM in LOG preprocessed image of CTD sigma value 5) for EGFR and KRAS, respectively. Furthermore, the machine learning algorithm improved the perdition power up to AUC: 0.82 for EGFR (LOG preprocessed of PET image set with sigma 3 with VT feature selector and SGD classifier) and AUC: 0.83 for KRAS (CT image set with sigma 3.5 with SM feature selector and SGD classifier). ConclusionOur findings demonstrated that non-invasive and reliable radiomics analysis can be successfully used to predict EGFR and KRAS mutation status in NSCLC patients. We demonstrated that radiomic features extracted from different image-feature sets could be used for EGFR and KRAS mutation status prediction in NSCLC patients, and showed that they have more predictive power than conventional imaging parameters.This study was conducted on 211 NSCLC cancer patients with available imaging and genomic data. Imaging modalities, including diagnostic CT (CTD) and PET/CT (i.e., low-dose CT (CT) used for PET attenuation correction and the PET image) for all patients were obtained (29-32) . All images we...

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To characterize intra-tumor heterogeneity comprehensively, we propose a multi-level fusion strategy to combine PET and CT information at the image-, matrixand feature-levels towards improved prognosis. Specifically, we developed fusion radiomics in the context of 3 prognostic outcomes in a multi-center setting (4 centers) involving 296 head & neck cancer patients. Eight clinical parameters were first utilized to build a (1) clinical model. We also built models by extracting 127 radiomics features from (2) PET images alone; (3-8) PET and CT images fused via wavelet-based fusion (WF) using CT-weights of 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8, gradient transfer fusion (GTF), and guided filteringbased fusion (GFF); (9) fused matrices (sumMat); (10-11) fused features constructed via feature averaging (avgFea) and feature concatenation (conFea); and finally, (12) CT images alone; above models were also expanded to include both clinical and radiomics features. Seven variations of training and testing partitions were investigated. Highest performance in 5, 6 and 5 partitions was achieved by imagelevel fusion strategies for RFS, MFS and OS prediction, respectively. Among all partitions, WF0.6 and WF0.8 showed significantly higher performance than CT model for RFS