RaCaT: An open source and easy to use radiomics calculator tool

PloS One
Elisabeth PfaehlerRonald Boellaard

Abstract

The widely known field 'Radiomics' aims to provide an extensive image based phenotyping of e.g. tumors using a wide variety of feature values extracted from medical images. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that feature values calculated by different institutes follow the same feature definitions. For this purpose, the imaging biomarker standardization initiative (IBSI) provides detailed mathematical feature descriptions, as well as (mathematical) test phantoms and corresponding reference feature values. We present here an easy to use radiomic feature calculator, RaCaT, which provides the calculation of a large number of radiomic features for all kind of medical images which are in compliance with the standard. The calculator is implemented in C++ and comes as a standalone executable. Therefore, it can be easily integrated in any programming language, but can also be called from the command line. No programming skills are required to use the calculator. The software architecture is highly modularized so that it is easily extendible. The user can also download the source code, adapt it if needed and build the calculator from source. The calculated feature values are compliant with the ones provided by the IBSI standard. Sour...Continue Reading

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Dec 13, 2019·Medical Physics·Andrea BettinelliMarta Paiusco
Jun 26, 2020·Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging·Yong-Jin ParkSeung Hwan Moon
May 7, 2020·Radiation Oncology·Christopher KurzMarco Riboldi
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Software Mentioned

Radiomics
PSFTOF
IBEX
Radiomics calculator
NGTDM
RaCaT
CGITA
Windows
LifeX
IBSI

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