Computed tomography-based radiomics approach in pancreatic tumors characterization

Kаrmаzаnovsky, G. G.; Gruzdev, I. S.; Tikhonova, V. S.; Kondratyev, E. V.; Revishvili, A. Sh.

doi:10.1007/s11547-021-01405-0

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“…Unlike Simpson et al [ 37 ], our data were not influenced by any type of treatment, as we evaluated native patients. Our results confirmed the capacity of radiomics data to identify several prognostic features that may affect the treatment choice in patients with liver metastases, in order to obtain a more personalized approach and avoid unnecessary treatments [ 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ]. The ability to obtain a prognostic biomarker allows the multidisciplinary team to correctly manage the patient.…”

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confidence: 77%

CT-Based Radiomics Analysis to Predict Histopathological Outcomes Following Liver Resection in Colorectal Liver Metastases

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Fusco

Setola

et al. 2022

Cancers

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Purpose: We aimed to assess the efficacy of radiomic features extracted by computed tomography (CT) in predicting histopathological outcomes following liver resection in colorectal liver metastases patients, evaluating recurrence, mutational status, histopathological characteristics (mucinous), and surgical resection margin. Methods: This retrospectively approved study included a training set and an external validation set. The internal training set included 49 patients with a median age of 60 years and 119 liver colorectal metastases. The validation cohort consisted of 28 patients with single liver colorectal metastasis and a median age of 61 years. Radiomic features were extracted using PyRadiomics on CT portal phase. Nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis tests, intraclass correlation, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses, linear regression modeling, and pattern recognition methods (support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), artificial neural network (NNET), and decision tree (DT)) were considered. Results: The median value of intraclass correlation coefficients for the features was 0.92 (range 0.87–0.96). The best performance in discriminating expansive versus infiltrative front of tumor growth was wavelet_HHL_glcm_Imc2, with an accuracy of 79%, a sensitivity of 84%, and a specificity of 67%. The best performance in discriminating expansive versus tumor budding was wavelet_LLL_firstorder_Mean, with an accuracy of 86%, a sensitivity of 91%, and a specificity of 65%. The best performance in differentiating the mucinous type of tumor was original_firstorder_RobustMeanAbsoluteDeviation, with an accuracy of 88%, a sensitivity of 42%, and a specificity of 100%. The best performance in identifying tumor recurrence was the wavelet_HLH_glcm_Idmn, with an accuracy of 85%, a sensitivity of 81%, and a specificity of 88%. The best linear regression model was obtained with the identification of recurrence considering the linear combination of the 16 significant textural metrics (accuracy of 97%, sensitivity of 94%, and specificity of 98%). The best performance for each outcome was reached using KNN as a classifier with an accuracy greater than 86% in the training and validation sets for each classification problem; the best results were obtained with the identification of tumor front growth considering the seven significant textural features (accuracy of 97%, sensitivity of 90%, and specificity of 100%). Conclusions: This study confirmed the capacity of radiomics data to identify several prognostic features that may affect the treatment choice in patients with liver metastases, in order to obtain a more personalized approach.

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CT-Based Radiomics Analysis to Predict Histopathological Outcomes Following Liver Resection in Colorectal Liver Metastases

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Fusco

Setola

et al. 2022

Cancers

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“…However, we selected critically ill patients in intensive care who had a CT study for an evaluation of the objective “gravity” of the disease. The possibility of objectively grading the disease made the data robustly comparable, eliminating the variability associated with qualitative assessment [ 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 ]. Secondly is the small number of patients who had taken a booster dose, which did not allow us to assess whether the additional dose could be protective or not.…”

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Imaging Severity COVID-19 Assessment in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Patients: Comparison of the Different Variants in a High Volume Italian Reference Center

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Fusco

Villanacci

et al. 2022

JPM

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Purpose: To analyze the vaccine effect by comparing five groups: unvaccinated patients with Alpha variant, unvaccinated patients with Delta variant, vaccinated patients with Delta variant, unvaccinated patients with Omicron variant, and vaccinated patients with Omicron variant, assessing the “gravity” of COVID-19 pulmonary involvement, based on CT findings in critically ill patients admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Methods: Patients were selected by ICU database considering the period from December 2021 to 23 March 2022, according to the following inclusion criteria: patients with proven Omicron variant COVID-19 infection with known COVID-19 vaccination with at least two doses and with chest Computed Tomography (CT) study during ICU hospitalization. Wee also evaluated the ICU database considering the period from March 2020 to December 2021, to select unvaccinated consecutive patients with Alpha variant, subjected to CT study, consecutive unvaccinated and vaccinated patients with Delta variant, subjected to CT study, and, consecutive unvaccinated patients with Omicron variant, subjected to CT study. CT images were evaluated qualitatively using a severity score scale of 5 levels (none involvement, mild: ≤25% of involvement, moderate: 26–50% of involvement, severe: 51–75% of involvement, and critical involvement: 76–100%) and quantitatively, using the Philips IntelliSpace Portal clinical application CT COPD computer tool. For each patient the lung volumetry was performed identifying the percentage value of aerated residual lung volume. Non-parametric tests for continuous and categorical variables were performed to assess statistically significant differences among groups. Results: The patient study group was composed of 13 vaccinated patients affected by the Omicron variant (Omicron V). As control groups we identified: 20 unvaccinated patients with Alpha variant (Alpha NV); 20 unvaccinated patients with Delta variant (Delta NV); 18 vaccinated patients with Delta variant (Delta V); and 20 unvaccinated patients affected by the Omicron variant (Omicron NV). No differences between the groups under examination were found (p value > 0.05 at Chi square test) in terms of risk factors (age, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, immunosuppression, chronic kidney, cardiac, pulmonary, neurologic, and liver disease, etc.). A different median value of aerated residual lung volume was observed in the Delta variant groups: median value of aerated residual lung volume was 46.70% in unvaccinated patients compared to 67.10% in vaccinated patients. In addition, in patients with Delta variant every other extracted volume by automatic tool showed a statistically significant difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated group. Statistically significant differences were observed for each extracted volume by automatic tool between unvaccinated patients affected by Alpha variant and vaccinated patients affected by Delta variant of COVID-19. Good statistically significant correlations among volumes extracted by automatic tool for each lung lobe and overall radiological severity score were obtained (ICC range 0.71–0.86). GGO was the main sign of COVID-19 lesions on CT images found in 87 of the 91 (95.6%) patients. No statistically significant differences were observed in CT findings (ground glass opacities (GGO), consolidation or crazy paving sign) among patient groups. Conclusion: In our study, we showed that in critically ill patients no difference were observed in terms of severity of disease or exitus, between unvaccinated and vaccinated patients. The only statistically significant differences were observed, with regard to the severity of COVID-19 pulmonary parenchymal involvement, between unvaccinated patients affected by Alpha variant and vaccinated patients affected by Delta variant, and between unvaccinated patients with Delta variant and vaccinated patients with Delta variant.

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“…The results of our study suggest that a non-invasive and dynamic analysis of MRI imaging, such as D-TA, can be used to predict the outcome of patients with LARC and, therefore, may help in the research on predictive biomarkers of responses to neoadjuvant C-RT and selection of patients who may avoid the risk of surgery. Many authors have already investigated the possible correlation of imaging techniques, especially MRI (volumetric analysis and TA) with patient outcomes; however, many of them mainly used T2 and DWI maps [ 23 , 31 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 ]. Conversely, CT imaging is used in different pathologies [ 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 ].…”

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Ability of Delta Radiomics to Predict a Complete Pathological Response in Patients with Loco-Regional Rectal Cancer Addressed to Neoadjuvant Chemo-Radiation and Surgery

Nardone

Reginelli

Grassi

et al. 2022

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We performed a pilot study to evaluate the use of MRI delta texture analysis (D-TA) as a methodological item able to predict the frequency of complete pathological responses and, consequently, the outcome of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer addressed to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (C-RT) and subsequently, to radical surgery. In particular, we carried out a retrospective analysis including 100 patients with locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma who received C-RT and then radical surgery in three different oncological institutions between January 2013 and December 2019. Our experimental design was focused on the evaluation of the gross tumor volume (GTV) at baseline and after C-RT by means of MRI, which was contoured on T2, DWI, and ADC sequences. Multiple texture parameters were extracted by using a LifeX Software, while D-TA was calculated as percentage of variations in the two time points. Both univariate and multivariate analysis (logistic regression) were, therefore, carried out in order to correlate the above-mentioned TA parameters with the frequency of pathological responses in the examined patients’ population focusing on the detection of complete pathological response (pCR, with no viable cancer cells: TRG 1) as main statistical endpoint. ROC curves were performed on three different datasets considering that on the 21 patients, only 21% achieved an actual pCR. In our training dataset series, pCR frequency significantly correlated with ADC GLCM-Entropy only, when univariate and binary logistic analysis were performed (AUC for pCR was 0.87). A confirmative binary logistic regression analysis was then repeated in the two remaining validation datasets (AUC for pCR was 0.92 and 0.88, respectively). Overall, these results support the hypothesis that D-TA may have a significant predictive value in detecting the occurrence of pCR in our patient series. If confirmed in prospective and multicenter trials, these results may have a critical role in the selection of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer who may benefit form radical surgery after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

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Computed tomography-based radiomics approach in pancreatic tumors characterization

Cited by 45 publications

References 52 publications

CT-Based Radiomics Analysis to Predict Histopathological Outcomes Following Liver Resection in Colorectal Liver Metastases

CT-Based Radiomics Analysis to Predict Histopathological Outcomes Following Liver Resection in Colorectal Liver Metastases

Imaging Severity COVID-19 Assessment in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Patients: Comparison of the Different Variants in a High Volume Italian Reference Center

Ability of Delta Radiomics to Predict a Complete Pathological Response in Patients with Loco-Regional Rectal Cancer Addressed to Neoadjuvant Chemo-Radiation and Surgery

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