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Able H, Wolf-Ringwall A, Rendahl A, Ober CP, Seelig DM, Wilke CT, Lawrence J. Computed tomography radiomic features hold prognostic utility for canine lung tumors: An analytical study. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256139. [PMID: 34403435 PMCID: PMC8370631 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Quantitative analysis of computed tomography (CT) radiomic features is an indirect measure of tumor heterogeneity, which has been associated with prognosis in human lung carcinoma. Canine lung tumors share similar features to human lung tumors and serve as a model in which to investigate the utility of radiomic features in differentiating tumor type and prognostication. The purpose of this study was to correlate first-order radiomic features from canine pulmonary tumors to histopathologic characteristics and outcome. Disease-free survival, overall survival time and tumor-specific survival were calculated as days from the date of CT scan. Sixty-seven tumors from 65 dogs were evaluated. Fifty-six tumors were classified as primary pulmonary adenocarcinomas and 11 were non-adenocarcinomas. All dogs were treated with surgical resection; 14 dogs received adjuvant chemotherapy. Second opinion histopathology in 63 tumors confirmed the histologic diagnosis in all dogs and further characterized 53 adenocarcinomas. The median overall survival time was longer (p = 0.004) for adenocarcinomas (339d) compared to non-adenocarcinomas (55d). There was wide variation in first-order radiomic statistics across tumors. Mean Hounsfield units (HU) ratio (p = 0.042) and median mean HU ratio (p = 0.042) were higher in adenocarcinomas than in non-adenocarcinomas. For dogs with adenocarcinoma, completeness of excision was associated with overall survival (p<0.001) while higher mitotic index (p = 0.007) and histologic score (p = 0.037) were associated with shorter disease-free survival. CT-derived tumor variables prognostic for outcome included volume, maximum axial diameter, and four radiomic features: integral total, integral total mean ratio, total HU, and max mean HU ratio. Tumor volume was also significantly associated with tumor invasion (p = 0.044). Further study of radiomic features in canine lung tumors is warranted as a method to non-invasively interrogate CT images for potential predictive and prognostic utility.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hannah Able
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- * E-mail: (HA); (JL)
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- * E-mail: (HA); (JL)
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Ren M, Zhang S, Zhang Q, Ma S. Gaussian graphical model-based heterogeneity analysis via penalized fusion. Biometrics 2021; 78:524-535. [PMID: 33501648 DOI: 10.1111/biom.13426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Heterogeneity is a hallmark of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and many other complex diseases. This study has been partly motivated by the unsupervised heterogeneity analysis for complex diseases based on molecular and imaging data, for which, network-based analysis, by accommodating the interconnections among variables, can be more informative than that limited to mean, variance, and other simple distributional properties. In the literature, there has been very limited research on network-based heterogeneity analysis, and a common limitation shared by the existing techniques is that the number of subgroups needs to be specified a priori or in an ad hoc manner. In this article, we develop a penalized fusion approach for heterogeneity analysis based on the Gaussian graphical model. It applies penalization to the mean and precision matrix parameters to generate regularized and interpretable estimates. More importantly, a fusion penalty is imposed to "automatedly" determine the number of subgroups and generate more concise, reliable, and interpretable estimation. Consistency properties are rigorously established, and an effective computational algorithm is developed. The heterogeneity analysis of non-small-cell lung cancer based on single-cell gene expression data of the Wnt pathway and that of lung adenocarcinoma based on histopathological imaging data not only demonstrate the practical applicability of the proposed approach but also lead to interesting new findings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mingyang Ren
- School of Mathematics Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- School of Mathematics Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Econometrics, Department of Statistics, School of Economics, The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, and Fujian Key Lab of Statistics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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