Towards a modular decision support system for radiomics: A case study on rectal cancer

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Highlights：

• A highly modular agent-based medical decision support system, which is capable of handling all the steps of a radiomics study.

• The agent has been evaluated in an extensive empirical analysis, involving two independent data sets of patients treated for rectal cancer.

• Experimental analysis results indicate that the proposed approach is able to generate radiomics-based predictive models, either in a centre-specific or centre-independent settings.

摘要

•A highly modular agent-based medical decision support system, which is capable of handling all the steps of a radiomics study.•The agent has been evaluated in an extensive empirical analysis, involving two independent data sets of patients treated for rectal cancer.•Experimental analysis results indicate that the proposed approach is able to generate radiomics-based predictive models, either in a centre-specific or centre-independent settings.

论文关键词：Decision support systems,Radiomics,Predictive models,Image feature analysis

论文评审过程：Received 1 November 2017, Revised 1 July 2018, Accepted 17 September 2018, Available online 4 October 2018, Version of Record 3 June 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.09.003