HealthSeptember 6, 2026

radiomic

ray-dee-OH-mik

Definition

Relating to the extraction and analysis of large amounts of advanced quantitative data from medical images to identify patterns or features invisible to the human eye.

Etymology

The word is a blend of 'radiology,' derived from the Latin 'radius' (beam/ray), and the suffix '-omics' from the Greek 'ōma' (mass/whole), used in biology to denote the study of a large-scale set of biological components.

In the news

The article describes how AI models analyze 'radiomic features' from CT scans to identify subtle patterns in heart tissue that predict stroke and atrial fibrillation risk.

ORFAN-MAESTRIA: AI Predicts Cardioembolic Stroke, Atrial Fibrillation from CT Scans

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