MIFE: An Easy-to-Use Web-Based Tool for Standardized Radiomics Features Extraction in Medical Images

In last decades, the advancement of technology has led medical imaging to become a fundamental component in medical sciences. Additionally, it has been detected that medical imaging has the potential to generate biomarkers. Given the increased interest in biomarkers in medical imaging, the emerging branch of science called ”Radiomics” has been given rise, which combines the area of radiological analysis and machine learning techniques. Nevertheless, radiomic studies face significant reproducibility challenges as a result of multiple factors. Therefore, several research centers have joined in an international collaboration in the project called Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative (IBSI), which main goal is to standardize the calculation of image biomarkers. Several technological tools have been developed for medical image manipulation and radiomic data extraction. However, it has been detected that several of these tools require a prolonged learning curve for users. Therefore, there is a need for the creation of new tools that are user-friendly and do not represent a complex task for users to handle. In this research, an easy-to-use Web-based tool for radiomic feature extraction is presented, which is capable of extract 134 standardized features based on IBSI guidelines, and a usability punctuation equal to 88.1 based on System Usability Scale.