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Implement of radiomics flow based on the YAP pipeline
LI Dong-bao  SONG Yang  LUO Qing  XIE Hai-bin  YANG Guang 

DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.07.009.


[Abstract] Objective: To support radiomics studies based YAP (Yet Another Pipeline), which is originally a framework for magnetic resonance image reconstruction and post-processing.Materials and Methods: We introduced support of Python into YAP pipeline, so that processors in the pipeline can be programmed in Python. Then we implemented a radiomics pipeline with PyRadiomics package. Finally, the pipeline was used to study brain tumor grading problem with BRATS2017 open datasets.Results: A complete radiomics pipeline was built, which involved hybrid programming of C++ and Python. Best results for BRATS2017 tumor grading were achieved when 12 features were selected, with the best accuracy of 94.5% and AUC (Area Under Curve) for receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.9650.Conclusions: Hybrid programming of Python and C++, together with the facilities provided by YAP framework, may facilitate radiomics studies.
[Keywords] Image processing, computer-assisted;Magnetic resonance imaging;Programming languages;Medicine

LI Dong-bao Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Materials Science, East China normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

SONG Yang Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Materials Science, East China normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

LUO Qing Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Materials Science, East China normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

XIE Hai-bin* Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Materials Science, East China normal University, Shanghai 200062, China; Shanghai Kangda Colorful Medical Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200062, China

YANG Guang* Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Materials Science, East China normal University, Shanghai 200062, China; Shanghai Kangda Colorful Medical Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200062, China

*Correspondence to: Xie HB, E-mail: hbxie@phy.ecnu.edu.cn. Yang G, E-mail: gyang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  This research was supported by Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61731009
Received  2018-04-13
Accepted  2018-05-20
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.07.009
DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.07.009.

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