El Khababi, Najim
Beets-Tan, Regina G. H.
Tissier, Renaud
Lahaye, Max J.
Maas, Monique
Curvo-Semedo, Luís
Dresen, Raphaëla C.
van Griethuysen, Joost J. M.
Nougaret, Stephanie
Beets, Geerard L.
van Triest, Baukelien
Taylor, Stuart A.
Lambregts, Doenja M. J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2990-0099
Article History
Received: 18 May 2023
Revised: 27 June 2023
Accepted: 16 July 2023
First Online: 30 August 2023
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Doenja M. J. Lambregts.
: Regina G. H. Beets-Tan and Doenja M. J. Lambregts are members of the <i>European Radiology</i> Editorial Board. They did not take place in the review or selection process of this article.The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors, Mr. Renaud Tissier, has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects included in the current cohort have been previously reported on:• <i>n</i> = 5 in a study focused on retrospectively evaluating staging trends in the Netherlands following guidelines updates (Bogveradze et al Evolutions in rectal cancer MRI staging and risk stratification in The Netherlands. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2022;47(1):38–47).• <i>n</i> = 4 in a technical study focused on assessing the reproducibility of quantitative imaging features in multicenter study cohorts (Schurink et al Sources of variation in multicenter rectal MRI data and their effect on radiomics feature reproducibility. Eur Radiol. 2022;32(3):1506–1516).• <i>n</i> = 2 in a study comparing different MRI response evaluation methods in rectal cancer (El Khababi et al Comparison of MRI response evaluation methods in rectal cancer: a multicentre and multireader validation study. Eur Radiol 33(6):4367–4377).
: • retrospective• observational• multicenter study