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Azour L, Oh AS, Prosper AE, Toussie D, Villasana-Gomez G, Pourzand L. Subsolid Nodules: Significance and Current Understanding. Clin Chest Med 2024; 45:263-277. [PMID: 38816087 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2024.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
Abstract
Subsolid nodules are heterogeneously appearing and behaving entities, commonly encountered incidentally and in high-risk populations. Accurate characterization of subsolid nodules, and application of evolving surveillance guidelines, facilitates evidence-based and multidisciplinary patient-centered management.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lea Azour
- Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 957437, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7437, USA.
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- Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 957437, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7437, USA
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- Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 957437, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7437, USA
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- Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, 660 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, 660 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 957437, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7437, USA
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Hanaoka T, Matoba H, Nakayama J, Ono S, Ikegawa K, Okada M. A spatio-temporal image analysis for growth of indeterminate pulmonary nodules detected by CT scan. Radiol Phys Technol 2024; 17:71-82. [PMID: 37889460 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-023-00750-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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The objective is to evaluate the performance of computational image classification for indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPN) chronologically detected by CT scan. Total 483 patients with 670 abnormal pulmonary nodules, who were taken chest thin-section CT (TSCT) images at least twice and resected as suspicious nodules in our hospital, were enrolled in this study. Nodular regions from the initial and the latest TSCT images were cut manually for each case, and approached by Python development environment, using the open-source cv2 library, to measure the nodular change rate (NCR). These NCRs were statistically compared with clinico-pathological factors, and then, this discriminator was evaluated for clinical performance. NCR showed significant differences among the nodular consistencies. In terms of histological subtypes, NCR of invasive adenocarcinoma (ADC) were significantly distinguishable from other lesions, but not from minimally invasive ADC. Only for cancers, NCR was significantly associated with loco-regional invasivity, p53-immunoreactivity, and Ki67-immunoreactivity. Regarding Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor gene mutation of ADC-related nodules, NCR showed a significant negative correlation. On staging of lung cancer cases, NCR was significantly increased with progression from pTis-stage 0 up to pT1b-stage IA2. For clinical shared decision-making (SDM) whether urgent resection or watchful-waiting, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed that area under the ROC curve was 0.686. For small-sized IPN detected by CT scan, this approach shows promise as a potential navigator to improve work-up for life-threatening cancer screening and assist SDM before surgery.
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- Takaomi Hanaoka
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, JA Nagano North Alps Medical Center Azumi Hospital, 3207-1 Ikeda, Ikeda-machi, Kita-azumi-gun, Nagano, 399-8605, Japan.
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano, 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano, 390-8621, Japan
- Department of Pathology, JA Nagano North Alps Medical Center Azumi Hospital, 3207-1 Ikeda, Ikeda-Machi, Kita-azumi-gun, Nagano, 399-8605, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, JA Nagano North Alps Medical Center Azumi Hospital, 3207-1 Ikeda, Ikeda-machi, Kita-azumi-gun, Nagano, 399-8605, Japan
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- Department of Respirology, JA Nagano North Alps Medical Center Azumi Hospital, 3207-1 Ikeda, Ikeda-machi, Kita-azumi-gun, Nagano, 399-8605, Japan
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- Department of Respirology, JA Nagano North Alps Medical Center Azumi Hospital, 3207-1 Ikeda, Ikeda-machi, Kita-azumi-gun, Nagano, 399-8605, Japan
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Zhang T, Zhang C, Zhong Y, Sun Y, Wang H, Li H, Yang G, Zhu Q, Yuan M. A radiomics nomogram for invasiveness prediction in lung adenocarcinoma manifesting as part-solid nodules with solid components smaller than 6 mm. Front Oncol 2022; 12:900049. [PMID: 36033463 PMCID: PMC9406823 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.900049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Objective To investigate whether radiomics can help radiologists and thoracic surgeons accurately predict invasive adenocarcinoma (IAC) manifesting as part-solid nodules (PSNs) with solid components <6 mm and provide a basis for rational clinical decision-making. Materials and Methods In total, 1,210 patients (mean age ± standard deviation: 54.28 ± 11.38 years, 374 men and 836 women) from our hospital and another hospital with 1,248 PSNs pathologically diagnosed with adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA), or IAC were enrolled in this study. Among them, 1,050 cases from our hospital were randomly divided into a derivation set (n = 735) and an internal validation set (n = 315), 198 cases from another hospital were used for external validation. Each labeled nodule was segmented, and 105 radiomics features were extracted. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) was used to calculate Rad-score and build the radiomics model. Multivariable logistic regression was conducted to identify the clinicoradiological predictors and establish the clinical-radiographic model. The combined model and predictive nomogram were developed based on identified clinicoradiological independent predictors and Rad-score using multivariable logistic regression analysis. The predictive performances of the three models were compared via receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Decision curve analysis (DCA) was performed on both the internal and external validation sets to evaluate the clinical utility of the nomogram. Results The radiomics model showed superior predictive performance than the clinical-radiographic model in both internal and external validation sets (Az values, 0.884 vs. 0.810, p = 0.001; 0.924 vs. 0.855, p < 0.001, respectively). The combined model showed comparable predictive performance to the radiomics model (Az values, 0.887 vs. 0.884, p = 0.398; 0.917 vs. 0.924, p = 0.271, respectively). The clinical application value of the nomogram developed based on the Rad-score, maximum diameter, and lesion shape was confirmed, and DCA demonstrated that application of the Rad-score would be beneficial for radiologists predicting invasive lesions. Conclusions Radiomics has the potential as an independent diagnostic tool to predict the invasiveness of PSNs with solid components <6 mm.
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- Teng Zhang
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- *Correspondence: Quan Zhu, ; Mei Yuan,
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- *Correspondence: Quan Zhu, ; Mei Yuan,
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Shalmon T, Salazar P, Horie M, Hanneman K, Pakkal M, Anwari V, Fratesi J. Predefined and data driven CT densitometric features predict critical illness and hospital length of stay in COVID-19 patients. Sci Rep 2022; 12:8143. [PMID: 35581369 PMCID: PMC9114017 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12311-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to compare whole lung CT density histograms to predict critical illness outcome and hospital length of stay in a cohort of 80 COVID-19 patients. CT chest images on segmented lungs were retrospectively analyzed. Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) was used to find the main modes of variations on CT density histograms. CT density features, the CT severity score, the COVID-GRAM score and the patient clinical data were assessed for predicting the patient outcome using logistic regression models and survival analysis. ROC analysis predictors of critically ill status: 87.5th percentile CT density (Q875)—AUC 0.88 95% CI (0.79 0.94), F1-CT—AUC 0.87 (0.77 0.93) Standard Deviation (SD-CT)—AUC 0.86 (0.73, 0.93). Multivariate models combining CT-density predictors and Neutrophil–Lymphocyte Ratio showed the highest accuracy. SD-CT, Q875 and F1 score were significant predictors of hospital length of stay (LOS) while controlling for hospital death using competing risks models. Moreover, two multivariate Fine-Gray regression models combining the clinical variables: age, NLR, Contrast CT factor with either Q875 or F1 CT-density predictors revealed significant effects for the prediction of LOS incidence in presence of a competing risk (death) and acceptable predictive performances (Bootstrapped C-index 0.74 [0.70 0.78]).
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- Tamar Shalmon
- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. .,University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada.
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Shi L, Zhao J, Peng X, Wang Y, Liu L, Sheng M. CT-based radiomics for differentiating invasive adenocarcinomas from indolent lung adenocarcinomas appearing as ground-glass nodules: Asystematic review. Eur J Radiol 2021; 144:109956. [PMID: 34563797 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 08/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE To provide an overview of the available studies investigating the use of computer tomography (CT) radiomics features for differentiating invasive adenocarcinomas (IAC) from indolent lung adenocarcinomas presenting as ground-glass nodules (GGNs), to identify the bias of the studies and to propose directions for future research. METHOD PubMed, Embase, Web of Science Core Collection were searched for relevant studies. The studies differentiating IAC from indolent lung adenocarcinomas appearing as GGNs based on CT radiomics features were included. Basic information, patient information, CT-scanner information, technique information and performance information were extracted for each included study. The quality of each study was assessed using the Radiomic Quality Score (RQS) and the Prediction model Risk of Bias Assessment Tool (PROBAST). RESULTS Twenty-eight studies were included with patients ranging from 34 to 794. All of them were retrospective. Patients in three studies were from multiple centers. Most studies segmented regions of interest manually. Pyradiomics and AK software were the most frequently used for features extraction. The number of radiomics features extracted varied from 7 to 10329. Logistic regression was the most frequently chosen model. Entropy was identified as radiomics signature in seven studies. The AUC of included studies ranged from 0.77 to 0.98 in 15 validation sets. The percentage RQS ranged from 3% to 50%. According to PROBAST, the overall risk of bias (ROB) was high in 89.3% (25/28) of included studies, unclear in 7.1% (2/28) of included studies, and low in 3.6% (1/28) of included studies. All studies were low concern regarding the applicability of primary studies to the review question. CONCLUSION CT radiomics-based model is promising and encouraging in differentiating IAC from indolent lung adenocarcinomas, though they require methodological rigor. Well-designed studies are necessary to demonstrate their validity and standardization of methods and results can prompt their use in daily clinical practice.
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- Lili Shi
- Medical School, Nantong University, Nantong, China; Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China
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- Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; School of Basic Medical Sciences, and Academy of Engineering and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University and Nantong First People's Hospital, Nantong, China.
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Minato H, Katayanagi K, Kurumaya H, Tanaka N, Fujimori H, Tsunezuka Y, Kobayashi T. Verification of the eighth edition of the UICC-TNM classification on surgically resected lung adenocarcinoma: Comparison with previous classification in a local center. Cancer Rep (Hoboken) 2021; 5:e1422. [PMID: 34169671 PMCID: PMC8789611 DOI: 10.1002/cnr2.1422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Revised: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The UICC 8th TNM classification of lung cancer has been changed dramatically, especially in measuring methods of T-desriptors. Different from squamous- or small-cell carcinomas, in which the solid- and the invasive-diameter mostly agree with each other, the diameter of the radiological solid part and that of pathological invasive part in adenocarcinomas often does not match. AIM We aimed to determine radiological and pathological tumor diameters of pulmonary adenocarcinomas with clinicopathological factors and evaluate the validity of the 8th edition in comparison with the 7th edition. METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively analyzed clinicopathological factors of 429 patients with surgically resected pulmonary adenocarcinomas. The maximum tumor and their solid-part diameters were measured using thin-sectioned computed tomography and compared with pathological tumor and invasive diameters. Overall survival (OS) rate was determined using the Kaplan-Meier method for different subgroups of clinicopathological factors. Akaike's information criteria (AIC) was used as a discriminative measure for the univariate Cox model for the 7th and 8th editions. Multivariate Cox regression analysis was performed to explore independent prognostic factors. Correlation coefficients between radiological and pathological diameters in the 7th and 8th editions were 0.911 and 0.888, respectively, without a significant difference. The major reasons for the difference in the 8th edition were the presence of intratumoral fibrosis and papillary growth pattern. The weighted kappa coefficients in the 8th edition were superior those in the 7th edition for both the T and Stage classifications. In the univariate Cox model, AIC levels were the lowest in the 8th edition. Multivariate analysis revealed that age, lymphovascular invasion, pT(8th), and stage were the most important determinants for OS. CONCLUSION The UICC 8th edition is a more discriminative classification than the 7th edition. For subsolid nodules, continuous efforts are necessary to increase the universality of the measurement of solid and invasive diameters.
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- Hiroshi Minato
- Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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de Margerie-Mellon C, Gill RR, Salazar P, Oikonomou A, Nguyen ET, Heidinger BH, Medina MA, VanderLaan PA, Bankier AA. Assessing invasiveness of subsolid lung adenocarcinomas with combined attenuation and geometric feature models. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14585. [PMID: 32883973 PMCID: PMC7471897 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70316-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The aim of this study was to develop and test multiclass predictive models for assessing the invasiveness of individual lung adenocarcinomas presenting as subsolid nodules on computed tomography (CT). 227 lung adenocarcinomas were included: 31 atypical adenomatous hyperplasia and adenocarcinomas in situ (class H1), 64 minimally invasive adenocarcinomas (class H2) and 132 invasive adenocarcinomas (class H3). Nodules were segmented, and geometric and CT attenuation features including functional principal component analysis features (FPC1 and FPC2) were extracted. After a feature selection step, two predictive models were built with ordinal regression: Model 1 based on volume (log) (logarithm of the nodule volume) and FPC1, and Model 2 based on volume (log) and Q.875 (CT attenuation value at the 87.5% percentile). Using the 200-repeats Monte-Carlo cross-validation method, these models provided a multiclass classification of invasiveness with discriminative power AUCs of 0.83 to 0.87 and predicted the class probabilities with less than a 10% average error. The predictive modelling approach adopted in this paper provides a detailed insight on how the value of the main predictors contribute to the probability of nodule invasiveness and underlines the role of nodule CT attenuation features in the nodule invasiveness classification.
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- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Radiology, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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A Subsolid Nodules Imaging Reporting System (SSN-IRS) for Classifying 3 Subtypes of Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma. Clin Lung Cancer 2020; 21:314-325.e4. [PMID: 32273256 DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2020.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 12/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To develop an imaging reporting system for the classification of 3 adenocarcinoma subtypes of computed tomography (CT)-detected subsolid pulmonary nodules (SSNs) in clinical patients. METHODS Between November 2011 and October 2017, 437 pathologically confirmed SSNs were retrospectively identified. SSNs were randomly divided 2:1 into a training group (291 cases) and a testing group (146 cases). CT-imaging characteristics were analyzed using multinomial univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis to identify discriminating factors for the 3 adenocarcinoma subtypes (pre-invasive lesions, minimally invasive adenocarcinoma, and invasive adenocarcinoma). These factors were used to develop a classification and regression tree model. Finally, an SSN Imaging Reporting System (SSN-IRS) was constructed based on the optimized classification model. For validation, the classification performance was evaluated in the testing group. RESULTS Of the CT-derived characteristics of SSNs, qualitative density (nonsolid or part-solid), core (non-core or core), semantic features (pleural indentation, vacuole sign, vascular invasion), and diameter of solid component (≤6 mm or >6 mm), were the most important factors for the SSN-IRS. The total sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of the SSN-IRS was 89.0% (95% confidence interval [CI], 84.8%-92.4%), 74.6% (95% CI, 70.8%-78.1%), and 79.4% (95% CI, 76.5%-82.0%) in the training group and 84.9% (95% CI, 78.1%-90.3%), 68.5% (95% CI, 62.8%-73.8%), and 74.0% (95% CI, 69.6%-78.0%) in the testing group, respectively. CONCLUSIONS The SSN-IRS can classify 3 adenocarcinoma subtypes using CT-based characteristics of subsolid pulmonary nodules. This classification tool can help clinicians to make follow-up recommendations or decisions for surgery in clinical patients with SSNs.
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