Data harmonisation for information fusion in digital healthcare: A state-of-the-art systematic review, meta-analysis and future research directions
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Journal Article
Abstract
Removing the bias and variance of multicentre data has always been a challenge in large scale digital healthcare studies, which requires the ability to integrate clinical features extracted from data acquired by different scanners and protocols to improve stability and robustness. Previous studies have described various computational approaches to fuse single modality multicentre datasets. However, these surveys rarely focused on evaluation metrics and lacked a checklist for computational data harmonisation studies. In this systematic review, we summarise the computational data harmonisation approaches for multi-modality data in the digital healthcare field, including harmonisation strategies and evaluation metrics based on different theories. In addition, a comprehensive checklist that summarises common practices for data harmonisation studies is proposed to guide researchers to report their research findings more effectively. Last but not least, flowcharts presenting possible ways for methodology and metric selection are proposed and the limitations of different methods have been surveyed for future research.
Date Issued
2022-06-01
Date Acceptance
2022-01-17
Citation
Information Fusion, 2022, 82, pp.99-122
ISSN
1566-2535
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
99
End Page
122
Journal / Book Title
Information Fusion
Volume
82
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sponsor
British Heart Foundation
Commission of the European Communities
European Research Council Horizon 2020
Commission of the European Communities
Innovative Medicines Initiative
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Grant Number
PG/16/78/32402
952172
H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2019-1 952172
101005122
101005122
PO:4700244755 Study:1199-0457
MR/V023799/1
MC_PC_21013
Subjects
cs.AI
cs.AI
cs.CV
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-01-24