Radiomics and Radiogenomics: Technical Basis and Clinical Applications
June 28, 2019
From CRC Press: Radiomics and Radiogenomics: Technical Basis and Clinical Applications provides a first summary of the overlapping fields of radiomics and radiogenomics, showcasing how they are being used to evaluate disease characteristics and correlate with treatment response and patient prognosis. It explains the fundamental principles, technical bases, and clinical applications with a focus on oncology. The book’s expert authors present computational approaches for extracting imaging features that help to detect and characterize disease tissues for improving diagnosis, prognosis, and evaluation of therapy response. This book is intended for audiences including imaging scientists, medical physicists, as well as medical professionals and specialists such as diagnostic radiologists, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists.
Features
- Provides a first complete overview of the technical underpinnings and clinical applications of radiomics and radiogenomics
- Shows how they are improving diagnostic and prognostic decisions with greater efficacy
- Discusses the image informatics, quantitative imaging, feature extraction, predictive modeling, software tools, and other key areas
- Covers applications in oncology and beyond, covering all major disease sites in separate chapters
- Includes an introduction to basic principles and discussion of emerging research directions with a roadmap to clinical translation