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The clinician\u2019s decision-making for treatment largely depends on imaging findings. Due to the lack of specific indicators, it may be of great value to explore the role of radiomics in risk categorization of the thymic epithelial tumors (TETs).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Four databases (PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library) were screened to identify eligible articles reporting radiomics models of diagnostic performance for risk categorization in TETs patients. The quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies 2 (QUADAS-2) and radiomics quality score (RQS) were used for methodological quality assessment. The pooled area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), sensitivity and specificity with their 95% confidence intervals were calculated.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A total of 2134 patients in 13 studies were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled AUC of 11 studies reporting high\/low-risk histologic subtypes was 0.855 (95% CI, 0.817\u20130.893), while the pooled AUC of 4 studies differentiating stage classification was 0.826 (95% CI, 0.817\u20130.893). Meta-regression revealed no source of significant heterogeneity. Subgroup analysis demonstrated that the best diagnostic imaging was contrast enhanced computer tomography (CECT) with largest pooled AUC (0.873, 95% CI 0.832\u20130.914). Publication bias was found to be no significance by Deeks\u2019 funnel plot.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This present study shows promise for preoperative selection of high-risk TETs patients based on radiomics signatures with current available evidence. However, methodological quality in further studies still needs to be improved for feasibility confirmation and clinical application of radiomics-based models in predicting risk categorization of the thymic epithelial tumors.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12880-023-01083-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,29]],"date-time":"2023-08-29T20:30:01Z","timestamp":1693341001000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Diagnostic performance of radiomics model for preoperative risk categorization in thymic epithelial tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Xue-Fang","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tie-Yuan","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"1083_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"332","DOI":"10.1016\/j.critrevonc.2016.01.012","volume":"99","author":"M Scorsetti","year":"2016","unstructured":"Scorsetti M, Leo F, Trama A, et al. 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