Radiomics refers to the extraction and analysis of a large amounts of advanced quantitative imaging features from medical images

for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The concept was born less than five years

but has become a research hotspot in global clinical medicine and biomedical engineering. The research of radiomics involves the screening

diagnosis

treatment

and evaluation of several types of tumors

and has achieved considerably optimistic results. Radiomics

which will obtain more standard

stable features and complete validation based on multicenter research

may be applied in precision oncology from evidence-based medicine hereafter. In this paper

a systematic and comprehensive exposition of radiomics in the past

present and future is given.