Fetal MRI radiomics: non-invasive and reproducible quantification of human lung maturity

• Published in: European radiology Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 4205 - 4213
• Main Authors: Prayer, Florian, Watzenböck, Martin L., Heidinger, Benedikt H., Rainer, Julian, Schmidbauer, Victor, Prosch, Helmut, Ulm, Barbara, Rubesova, Erika, Prayer, Daniela, Kasprian, Gregor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; Data acquisition; Diagnostic Radiology; Female; Fetus - diagnostic imaging; Fetuses; Gestational age; Humans; Image segmentation; Imaging; Infant; Internal Medicine; Interventional Radiology; Itk protein; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Lungs; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Mathematical analysis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neuroradiology; Paediatric; Parameter identification; Radiology; Radiomics; Reproducibility; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Ultrasound; Fetal imaging; Reproducibility of results; Magnetic resonance imaging; Lung

Objectives To assess the reproducibility of radiomics features extracted from the developing lung in repeated in-vivo fetal MRI acquisitions. Methods In-vivo MRI (1.5 Tesla) scans of 30 fetuses, each including two axial and one coronal T2-weighted sequences of the whole lung with all other acquisiti...