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This retrospective study included preoperative MR imaging of 288 pediatric patients with pediatric posterior fossa tumors, including medulloblastoma (n=111), ependymoma (n=70), and pilocytic astrocytoma (n=107). Radiomics features were extracted from T2-weighted images, contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images, and ADC maps. Models generated by standard manual optimization by a machine learning expert were compared with automatic machine learning via the Tree-Based Pipeline Optimization Tool for performance evaluation. The authors conclude that automatic machine learning based on routine MR imaging classified pediatric posterior fossa tumors with high accuracy compared with manual expert pipeline optimization and qualitative expert MR imaging review.