Journal
EJNMMI PHYSICS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1186/s40658-020-00340-9
Keywords
Y-90; PET imaging; Liver cancer; Radiomics; Absorbed dose; Radioembolization
Funding
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) [R01-CA233487]
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging (NIBIB), United States Department of Health and Human Services [R01EB022075]
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Purpose To evaluate whether lesion radiomics features and absorbed dose metrics extracted from post-therapy Y-90 PET can be integrated to better predict outcomes in microsphere radioembolization of liver malignancies Methods Given the noisy nature of Y-90 PET, first, a liver phantom study with repeated acquisitions and varying reconstruction parameters was used to identify a subset of robust radiomics features for the patient analysis. In 36 radioembolization procedures, Y-90 PET/CT was performed within a couple of hours to extract 46 radiomics features and estimate absorbed dose in 105 primary and metastatic liver lesions. Robust radiomics modeling was based on bootstrapped multivariate logistic regression with shrinkage regularization (LASSO) and Cox regression with LASSO. Nested cross-validation and bootstrap resampling were used for optimal parameter/feature selection and for guarding against overfitting risks. Spearman rank correlation was used to analyze feature associations. Area under the receiver-operating characteristics curve (AUC) was used for lesion response (at first follow-up) analysis while Kaplan-Meier plots and c-index were used to assess progression model performance. Models with absorbed dose only, radiomics only, and combined models were developed to predict lesion outcome. Results The phantom study identified 15/46 reproducible and robust radiomics features that were subsequently used in the patient models. A lesion response model with zone percentage (ZP) and mean absorbed dose achieved an AUC of 0.729 (95% CI 0.702-0.758), and a progression model with zone size nonuniformity (ZSN) and absorbed dose achieved a c-index of 0.803 (95% CI 0.790-0.815) on nested cross-validation (CV). Although the combined models outperformed the radiomics only and absorbed dose only models, statistical significance was not achieved with the current limited data set to establish expected superiority. Conclusion We have developed new lesion-level response and progression models using textural radiomics features, derived from Y-90 PET combined with mean absorbed dose for predicting outcome in radioembolization. These encouraging, but limited results, will need further validation in independent and larger datasets prior to any clinical adoption.
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