Radiomics in paediatric neuro‐oncology: A multicentre study on MRI texture analysis

Brain tumours are the most common solid cancers in children in the UK and are the most common cause of cancer deaths in this age group. Despite current advances in MRI, non‐invasive diagnosis of paediatric brain tumours has yet to find its way into routine clinical practice. Radiomics, the high‐throughput extraction and analysis of quantitative image features (e.g. texture), offers potential solutions for tumour characterization and decision support.

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