Benign/malignant classifier of soft tissue tumors using MR imaging.

Unlabelled: This article presents a pattern-recognition approach to the soft tissue tumors (STT) benign/malignant character diagnosis using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging applied to a large multicenter database.

Objective: To develop and test an automatic classifier of STT into benign or malignant by using classical MR imaging findings and epidemiological information.

Materials And Methods: A database of 430 patients (62% benign and 38% malignant) from several European multicenter registers.