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How Can Radiomics Improve Clinical Choices?

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Over the past decade, we have witnessed a great expansion of the use and the role of medical imaging technologies in clinical oncology from a primarily diagnostic, qualitative tool to include a central role in the context of individualized medicine, with a dominant quantitative value [1].

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    Elisa Meldolesi, Nicola Dinapoli, Roberto Gatta, Andrea Damiani & Vincenzo Valentini

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Meldolesi, E., Dinapoli, N., Gatta, R., Damiani, A., Valentini, V., Farchione, A. (2018). How Can Radiomics Improve Clinical Choices?. In: Valentini, V., Schmoll, HJ., van de Velde, C. (eds) Multidisciplinary Management of Rectal Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43217-5_18

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