Radiomic Feature Stability Analysis based on Probabilistic Segmentations
Identifying image features that are robust with respect to segmentation variability and domain shift is a tough challenge in radiomics. So far, this problem has mainly been tackled in test-retest analyses. In this work we analyze radiomics feature stability based on probabilistic segmentations. Based on a public lung cancer dataset, we generate an arbitrary number of plausible segmentations using a Probabilistic U-Net. From these segmentations, we extract a high number of plausible feature vectors for each lung tumor and analyze feature variance with respect to the segmentations. Our results suggest that there are groups of radiomic features that are more (e.g. statistics features) and less (e.g. gray-level size zone matrix features) robust against segmentation variability. Finally, we demonstrate that segmentation variance impacts the performance of a prognostic lung cancer survival model and propose a new and potentially more robust radiomics feature selection workflow.
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