Image biomarker standardisation initiative
This addresses the challenge of unreliable radiomics studies for researchers and clinicians in medical imaging, though it is incremental as it focuses on standardization rather than new methods.
The Image Biomarker Standardisation Initiative (IBSI) tackled the lack of reproducibility and validation in high-throughput quantitative image analysis (radiomics) by providing standardized nomenclature, benchmark datasets, and reporting guidelines to improve consistency in extracting image biomarkers from medical imaging.
The image biomarker standardisation initiative (IBSI) is an independent international collaboration which works towards standardising the extraction of image biomarkers from acquired imaging for the purpose of high-throughput quantitative image analysis (radiomics). Lack of reproducibility and validation of high-throughput quantitative image analysis studies is considered to be a major challenge for the field. Part of this challenge lies in the scantiness of consensus-based guidelines and definitions for the process of translating acquired imaging into high-throughput image biomarkers. The IBSI therefore seeks to provide image biomarker nomenclature and definitions, benchmark data sets, and benchmark values to verify image processing and image biomarker calculations, as well as reporting guidelines, for high-throughput image analysis.