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Hannah Horng¹, Apurva Singh², Bardia Yousefi²

¹Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.

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Two new methods, Nested ComBat and GMM ComBat, improve radiomic feature harmonization across different imaging parameters. These advanced techniques enhance data consistency for more reliable clinical applications in medical imaging.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Radiomics
Computational Biology

Background:

Radiomic features are valuable clinical tools but susceptible to image acquisition variability.
Existing harmonization methods like ComBat have limitations with multimodal data and unknown/multiple imaging parameters.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate novel methods for harmonizing radiomic features affected by multiple imaging parameters.
To address limitations of standard ComBat in multimodal data harmonization.

Main Methods:

Proposed Nested ComBat for sequential harmonization across multiple imaging parameters.
Introduced GMM ComBat using Gaussian Mixture Models to group data for batch effect harmonization.
Evaluated methods on lung CT datasets using CapTK and PyRadiomics.

Main Results:

Nested ComBat showed comparable performance to standard ComBat in reducing parameter-induced feature differences.
GMM ComBat significantly improved harmonization performance over standard ComBat.
Harmonized features using new methods maintained similar performance in survival analyses.

Conclusions:

Nested ComBat and GMM ComBat offer effective solutions for radiomic feature harmonization.
These methods enhance the reliability of radiomic features for clinical use, especially with complex imaging data.
Improved harmonization supports more robust downstream analyses, including survival prediction.