abasti-lab / carpi

The Cancer Radiomic and Perfusion Imaging (CARPI) automated framework is a Python-based software for radiomic and perfusion feature extraction developed by the ABASTI laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

CARPI Automated Framework

The Cancer Radiomic and Perfusion Imaging (CARPI) automated framework is a Python-based software application that is vendor- and sequence-neutral. CARPI uses DICOM-RT files generated using an application of the user's choice and automatically performs:
  ✔️ Radiomic Feature Extraction
  ✔️ Perfusion Analysis
  ✔️ Relational Database Generation
  ✔️ Graphic Report Generation

Note

Link to Technical Paper: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/CCI.23.00118

Steps to Successfully Run CARPI:

STEP 1. Download the CARPI directory from this repository.
STEP 2. Install the required Python libraries:
   a) pip install pydicom
   b) pip install DicomRTTool
   c) pip install pyradiomics
   d) pip install psycopg2
STEP 3. Download and configure PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org/download/
STEP 4. Open the database.ini file and edit it according to your PostgreSQL configuration:

STEP 5. Open the CARPI_Main.py script and enter the user-defined variables:

STEP 6. Run CARPI_Main.py