Journal
JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 805-823Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-014-9716-x
Keywords
Test-retest reproducibility; Lung cancer; CT; Quantitative image features
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [U01 CA143062, P30 CA076292] Funding Source: Medline
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Quantitative size, shape, and texture features derived from computed tomographic (CT) images may be useful as predictive, prognostic, or response biomarkers in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, to be useful, such features must be reproducible, non-redundant, and have a large dynamic range. We developed a set of quantitative three-dimensional (3D) features to describe segmented tumors and evaluated their reproducibility to select features with high potential to have prognostic utility. Thirty-two patients with NSCLC were subjected to unenhanced thoracic CT scans acquired within 15 min of each other under an approved protocol. Primary lung cancer lesions were segmented using semi-automatic 3D region growing algorithms. Following segmentation, 219 quantitative 3D features were extracted from each lesion, corresponding to size, shape, and texture, including features in transformed spaces (laws, wavelets). The most informative features were selected using the concordance correlation coefficient across test-retest, the biological range and a feature independence measure. There were 66 (30.14 %) features with concordance correlation coefficient a parts per thousand yenaEuro parts per thousand 0.90 across test-retest and acceptable dynamic range. Of these, 42 features were non-redundant after grouping features with R (2) (Bet) a parts per thousand yenaEuro parts per thousand 0.95. These reproducible features were found to be predictive of radiological prognosis. The area under the curve (AUC) was 91 % for a size-based feature and 92 % for the texture features (runlength, laws). We tested the ability of image features to predict a radiological prognostic score on an independent NSCLC (39 adenocarcinoma) samples, the AUC for texture features (runlength emphasis, energy) was 0.84 while the conventional size-based features (volume, longest diameter) was 0.80. Test-retest and correlation analyses have identified non-redundant CT image features with both high intra-patient reproducibility and inter-patient biological range. Thus making the case that quantitative image features are informative and prognostic biomarkers for NSCLC.
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