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. 2016 Mar 8;89(1061):20151030. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20151030

Table 2.

Manually extracted imaging features from radiogenomic studies

Study Modality Cancer Significance definition Manually extracted feature
Jamshidi et al28 CT CCRCC Association with gene clusters Pattern of tumour necrosis, tumour transition zone, tumour–parenchyma interaction, tumour–parenchyma interface
Kuo et al18 CT HCC Association with mRNA and gene clusters Internal arteries, texture heterogeneity, wash-in, washout, necrosis, tumour margin score
Segal et al20 CT HCC Association with mRNA Necrosis, internal septa, texture heterogeneity (arterial and venous phase), tumour margin score (minimum and maximum), enhancement pattern, internal arteries (density and necrosis edge), hypodense halo, washout, internal arteries (density), tumour–liver difference, corrected imaging area, necrosis density, capsule, wash-in, infiltration, tumour–liver difference, attenuation/heterogeneity score
Carlson et al24 CT HGG Association with mRNA Oedema
Gevaert et al15 CT NSCLC Association with mRNA Internal air bronchogram, complex shape, vascular convergence, lobulated margin, oval shape, irregular margin, pleural retraction, solid density, entering airway, right upper lobe apical location
Aerts et al9 CT NSCLC Association with mRNA None
Jain et al32 CT GBM Association with mRNA None
Osborne et al36 PET Breast cancer Association with molecular subtypes None
Palaskas et al37 PET Breast cancer Association with Myc-overexpression None
Nair et al19 PET NSCLC Association with mRNA and gene clusters None
Yamamoto et al21 MRI Breast cancer Association with gene clusters Enhancement pattern, size, shape, margin, location, T2 tumour signal interface between tissue and tumour, satellite lesions, multifocal disease, lymph node involvement, un-coordinated growth, stromal alterations
Yamamoto et al22 MRI Breast cancer Association with IncRNA None
Zhu et al38 MRI Breast cancer Association with gene clusters None
Halle et al40 MRI Cervical cancer Association with gene clusters None
Gevaert et al16 MRI GBM Association with molecular subtypes VASARI (deep white matter location, enhancement, enhancing margin characteristics, diffusion characteristics)
Colen et al29 MRI GBM Association with mRNA VASARI (enhancing tumour across midline/corpus callosum, deep white matter tract involvement, ependymal involvement)
Nicolasjilwan et al34 MRI GBM Association with mRNA and CNV VASARI (proportion of tumour contrast enhancement)
Jamshidi et al17 MRI GBM Association with gene clusters Contrast enhancement, necrosis, contrast-to-necrosis ratio, infiltrative vs oedematous T2abnormality, mass effect, subventricular zone involvement
Barajas et al24 MRI GBM Association with mRNA and gene clusters Lesion location, presence of contrast enhancement, central necrosis, degree of T2 oedema, mass effect
Diehn et al25 MRI GBM Association with gene clusters Contrast enhancement, necrosis, mass effect, pattern of T2oedema (infiltrative/oedematous), cortical involvement, SVZ involvement, C : N ratio, contrast/T2 ratio, degree of T2 oedema, T2 heterogeneity
Pope et al26 MRI GBM Association with mRNA Enhancement extent
Zinn et al23 MRI GBM Association with mRNA and micro-RNA None
Zinn et al27 MRI GBM Association with mRNA and micro-RNA None
Colen et al31 MRI GBM Association with mRNA and micro-RNA None
Naeini et al33 MRI GBM Association with molecular subtypes None
Pope et al35 MRI GBM Association with mRNA None
Miura et al39 MRI HCC Association with mRNA Intensity on hepatobiliary phase

CCRCC, clear-cell renal cell carcinoma; C:N ratio, contrast:necrosis ratio; CNV, copy number variation; GBM, glioblastoma multiforme; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; HGG, high-grade glioma; mRNA, messenger RNA; NSCLC, non-small-cell lung cancer; PET, positron emission tomography; SVZ, subventricular zone; VASARI, Visually Accessible Rembrandt Images.

Bold type means significant relationship of imaging feature with genomic data.

Article by Colen et al31 published in BioMed Central Medical Genomics; article by Colen et al29 published in Radiology.