Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging / MRI in Cancer Diagnosis · Journal article
Radiology Imaging Cancer · August 14, 2026
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This retrospective radiomics study reports that synthetic MRI radiomics predicted pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer and outperformed traditional radiomics models, with association to immune pathways and recurrence-free survival. The source is a methods or results summary lacking sample size, confidence intervals, p-values, and prospective validation, limiting strength of inference.
Retrospective radiomics study. Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant therapy. Intervention: Synthetic MRI radiomics model. Compared with: Traditional radiomics models.
Synthetic MRI radiomics accurately predicted pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer Synthetic MRI radiomics outperformed traditional radiomics models Results were associated with immune-related pathways and recurrence-free survival
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If confirmed prospectively with appropriate power, synthetic MRI radiomics could aid early prediction of treatment response in HER2-positive breast cancer. Current evidence is insufficient for clinical implementation without external validation and hard outcome data.
Single-centre retrospective radiomics study with surrogate endpoint (pathologic complete response) and no prospective validation; promising methodology but limited generalizability and unclear sample adequacy.
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If confirmed prospectively with appropriate power, synthetic MRI radiomics could aid early prediction of treatment response in HER2-positive breast cancer. Current evidence is insufficient for clinical implementation without external validation and hard outcome data.
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Synthetic MRI radiomics accurately predicted pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant therapy in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–positive breast cancer, outperformed traditional radiomics models, and was associated with immune-related pathways and recurrence-free survival.
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