Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing
quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties / analytes from
imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties / analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying
biology as an intermediary to assessing
pathology provides many analytic and
processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize
pathology from underlying
imaging data.