对148例来自两个独立中心的非小细胞肺癌患者的PET/CT影像进行回顾性分析,这些影像采用不同的扫描设备,CT断层间隔分别为3和5 mm。在PET/CT影像上勾画感兴趣区(region of interest,ROI),对CT影像分别采用灰度范围归一化、降采样、插值升采样进行预处理后,提取、筛选影像组学特征,建立logistic回归(logistic regression,LR)模型。特征的稳定性通过统计学显著性检验的P值衡量。采用受试者工作特征(receiver operating characteristic,ROC)曲线评价模型效能,用来评估特征对EGFR突变状态的预测能力。
结果:
采用的3种图像预处理方法都能提升影像组学特征的稳定性,使用灰度范围归一化和降采样组合的方法效果最好,相比于基线能够多保留30.8%的特征,其对应特征的预测能力也最佳,构建的LR分类器在训练和测试集上曲线下面积(area under curve,AUC)分别为0.862和0.716。
结论:
灰度范围归一化配合降采样是有效的多中心影像预处理手段,能够提高影像组学特征的稳定性和预测效能。
Abstract
Objective:
To identify epidermal growth factor receptor (
EGFR
) mutation status lung adenocarcinoma patients using
18
F-FDG positron emission to
mography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) images from two different institutions
and to find appropriate imaging preprocessing methods to handle CT images of different slice thickness.
Methods:
18
F-FDG PET/CT images of 148 patients were retrospectively studied
which were scanned in two hospitals with different scanners and CT slice thickness (3 and 5 mm
respectively). The tumor region of interest (ROI) was manually delineated. Gray scale unifying
downsampling and upsampling with interpolation were used to pre-processing CT images. After the extraction and selection of radiomic features
logistic regression (LR) models were constructed to predict
EGFR
mutation status. Feature stability was evaluated through statistical tests. LR models were evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and served as an indicator of feature predicting power.
Results:
All adopted methods improves feature stability. The combination of gray scale unifying and downsampling performed best
resulting in 30.8% more robust features compared to baseline
and the corresponding LR model achieves area under curve (AUC) scores 0.862 in training and 0.716 in test cohort.
Conclusion:
The combination of gray scale unifying and downsampling is an effective approach for multi-center radiomic analysis
improving both feature stability and predictive power.
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Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application, Fudan University