Journal
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.915835
Keywords
non-small cell lung cancer; Computed Tomography (CT); chemotherapy response; radiomics; peritumoral features; area under curve
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Liaoning Natural Science Foundation
- Key R&D Program Guidance Projects in Liaoning Province
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- [82072008]
- [2011-YGJC-21]
- [2019JH8/10300051]
- [N2119010]
- [N2224001-10]
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This study evaluated the ability of computed tomography (CT) radiomic features to predict chemotherapy response in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The results showed that features from the peritumoral region performed better than features from the intratumoral region, and combined features from two peritumoral regions yielded the best predictions.
PurposeThis study aims to evaluate the ability of peritumoral, intratumoral, or combined computed tomography (CT) radiomic features to predict chemotherapy response in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). MethodsAfter excluding subjects with incomplete data or other types of treatments, 272 (Dataset 1) and 43 (Dataset 2, external validation) NSCLC patients who were only treated with chemotherapy as the first-line treatment were enrolled between 2015 and 2019. All patients were divided into response and nonresponse based on the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors, version 1.1. By using 3D slicer and morphological operations in python, the intra- and peritumoral regions of lung tumors were segmented from pre-treatment CT images (unenhanced) and confirmed by two experienced radiologists. Then radiomic features (the first order, texture, shape, et al.) were extracted from the above regions of interest. The models were trained and tested in Dataset 1 and further validated in Dataset 2. The performance of models was compared using the area under curve (AUC), confusion matrix, accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. ResultsThe radiomic model using features from the peritumoral region of 0-3 mm outperformed that using features from 3-6, 6-9, 9-12 mm peritumoral region, and intratumoral region (AUC: 0.95 versus 0.87, 0.86, 0.85, and 0.88). By the fusion of features from 0-3 and 3-6 mm peritumoral regions, the logistic regression model achieved the best performance, with an AUC of 0.97. This model achieved an AUC of 0.85 in the external cohort. Moreover, among the 20 selected features, seven features differed significantly between the two groups (p < 0.05). ConclusionsCT radiomic features from both the peri- and intratumoral regions can predict chemotherapy response in NSCLC using machine learning models. Combined features from two peritumoral regions yielded better predictions.
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