To investigate the value of texture analysis based on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in grading glioma.
Methods:
A retrospective analysis was made of 30 low grade glioma (LGG) (grade Ⅱ) and 97 high grade glioma (HGG) (grade Ⅲ 46 cases
grade Ⅳ 51 cases) confirmed by pathology. MaZda ver.4.6 was used to extract texture features of the highest signal region of tumor parenchymal in all patients DWI images and analyze histogram parameters
including mean
variance
skewness
kurtosis and Pere.1%
Pere.10%
Pere.50%
Pere.90%
Pere.99%. Mann-Whitney
U
was used to compare the variance and kurtosis
and independent-samples
t
test was used for the other parameters. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to analyze the diagnostic efficiency of statistically significant parameters between LGG and HGG. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis was used to model texture parameters with statistical significance and ROC curve was used to evaluate the efficiency of the model.
Results:
The mean
variance
Pere.1%
Pere.10%
Pere.50%
Pere.90%
Pere.99% of histogram parameters were significantly different between LGG and HGG [(144.19847.133)
vs
(185.60940.341)
(28.10139.529)
vs
(160.143211.832)
(134.23343.673)
vs
(162.57740.478)
(138.10044.970)
vs
(172.81439.384)
(144.40047.211)
vs
(186.24740.473)
(149.83349.537)
vs
(197.44342.977)
(152.33350.384)
vs
(201.36143.720)
all
P
<0.001]
while no significant difference in skewness or kurtosis between the two groups [(-0.3220.499)
vs
(-0.3690.542)
P
=0.669; (-0.1710.587)
vs
(-0.1350.973)
P
=0.440]. When the variance between the two groups was 29.23 as the threshold
the diagnostic ef
ficiency was the highest
and the corresponding sensitivity
specificity and area under the curve (AUC) were 72.16%
76.67% and 0.793
respectively. The sensitivity
specificity and AUC of the multiparameter Logistic regression diagnostic model established by these 7 texture parameters were 61.86%
86.67% and 0.807
respectively.
Conclusion:
The histogram parameters based on DWI texture analysis can effectively differentiate LGG from HGG before operation
among which variance has high diagnostic efficiency.