Table 2.

Pancreas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis techniques.

Technique	Advantages	Disadvantages
Region-of-interest	Easy to implement; fast; can avoid ductal structures and organ borders	Placement affects quantification; does not capture anatomical heterogeneity
Whole pancreas averaging	Not subject to reader placement; captures all regions of the pancreas	Averages ductal structures and organ borders; may average out sparse alterations; requires capturing entire pancreas in field of view
Radiomics	Quantifies anatomical heterogeneity; identifies anatomical regions with different properties (“habitats”)	Difficult to implement; High dimensionality of data can result in overfitting