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LIFE-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life11111164
Keywords
prostate cancer; radiomic features; classification; risk stratification; computed tomography
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Prostate Cancer is often asymptomatic in the early stages, requiring active surveillance screening. TRUS is the principal method for diagnosis, but may have sampling errors and potential complications for patients.
Prostate Cancer (PCa) is mostly asymptomatic at an early stage and often painless requiring active surveillance screening. Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy (TRUS) is the principal method to diagnose PCa following a histological examination by observing cell pattern irregularities and assigning the Gleason Score (GS) according to the recommended guidelines. This procedure presents sampling errors and, being invasive may cause complications to the patients. External Beam Radiotherapy Treatment (EBRT) is presented as curative option for localised and locally advanced disease, as a palliative option for metastatic low-volume disease or after prostatectomy for prostate bed and pelvic nodes salvage. In the EBRT worflow a Computed Tomography (CT) scan is performed as the basis for dose calculations and volume delineations. In this work, we evaluated the use of data-characterization algorithms (radiomics) from CT images for PCa aggressiveness assessment. The fundamental motivation relies on the wide availability of CT images and the need to provide tools to assess EBRT effectiveness. We used Pyradiomics and Local Image Features Extraction (LIFEx) to extract features and search for a radiomic signature within CT images. Finnaly, when applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to the features, we were able to show promising results.
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