Predicting the WHO/ISUP Grade of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Through CT-Based Tumoral and Peritumoral Radiomics

Abstract

ObjectivesThis study aims to establish predictive logistic models for the World Health Organization/International Society of Urological Pathology (WHO/ISUP) grades of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) based on tumoral and peritumoral radiomics.MethodsA cohort of 370 patients with pathologically confirmed ccRCCs were included in this retrospective study between January 2014 and December 2020 according to the WHO/ISUP grading system. The volume of interests of triphasic computed tomography images were depicted manually using the “itk-SNAP” software, and the radiomics features were calculated. The cohort was segmented into the training cohort and validation cohort with a random proportion of 7:3. After extraction of radiomics features by analysis of variance (ANOVA) or Mann-Whitney U test, correlation analysis, and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) method, the logistic models of tumoral radiomics (LR-tumor) and peritumoral radiomics (LR-peritumor) were developed. The LR-peritumor was subdivided into LR-peritumor-2mm, LR-peritumor-5mm, and LR-peritumor-10mm, and the LR-peritumor-2mm was subdivided into LR-peritumor-kid and LR-peritumor-fat based on the neighboring tissues of ccRCCs. Finally, an integrative model of tumoral and peritumoral radiomics (LR-tumor/peritumor) was built. The value of areas under the receiver operator characteristics curve (AUCs) was calculated to assess the efficacy of the models.ResultsThere were 209 low-grade and 161 high-grade ccRCCs enrolled. The AUCs of LR-tumor in CT images of venous phase were 0.802 in the training cohort and 0.796 in the validation cohort. The AUCs were higher in the LR-peritumor-2mm than those in LR-peritumor-5mm and LR-peritumor-10mm (training cohort: 0.788 vs. 0.788 and 0.759; validation cohort: 0.787 vs. 0.785 and 0.758). Moreover, the AUCs of LR-peritumor-fat were higher compared with those of LR-peritumor-kid. The LR-tumor/peritumor displayed the highest AUCs of 0.812 in the training cohort and 0.804 in the validation cohort.ConclusionsThe tumoral and peritumoral radiomics helped to predict the WHO/ISUP grades of ccRCCs. On the diagnostic performance of peritumoral radiomics, better results were seen for the LR-peritumor-2mm and LR-peritumor-fat.

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