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Variance stabilization is an important step in the statistical assessment of quantitative imaging biomarkers. The objective of this study is to compare the Log and the Box–Cox transformations for variance stabilization in the context of assessing the performance of a particular quantitative imaging biomarker, the estimation of lung nodule volume from computed tomography images. First, a model is developed to generate and characterize repeated measurements typically observed in computed tomography lung nodule volume estimation. Given this model, we derive the parameter of the Box–Cox transformation that stabilizes the variance of the measurements across lung nodule volumes. Second, simulated, phantom, and clinical datasets are used to compare the Log and the Box–Cox transformations. Two metrics are used for quantifying the stability of the measurements across the transformed lung nodule volumes: the coefficient of variation for the standard deviation and the repeatability coefficient. The results for simulated, phantom, and clinical datasets show that the Box–Cox transformation generally had better variance stabilization performance compared to the Log transformation for lung nodule

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Author

Gong, Qi; Li, Qin; Gavrielides, Marios A; Petrick, Nicholas

Publisher

SAGE Publications (ISSN 0962-2802)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Mathematics (Physical Sciences)