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Cheung EYW, Wu RWK, Chu ESM, Mak HKF. Integrating Demographics and Imaging Features for Various Stages of Dementia Classification: Feed Forward Neural Network Multi-Class Approach. Biomedicines 2024; 12:896. [PMID: 38672253 PMCID: PMC11047992 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines12040896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND MRI magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition (MPRAGE) is an easily available imaging modality for dementia diagnosis. Previous studies suggested that volumetric analysis plays a crucial role in various stages of dementia classification. In this study, volumetry, radiomics and demographics were integrated as inputs to develop an artificial intelligence model for various stages, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive decline (MCI) and cognitive normal (CN) dementia classifications. METHOD The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset was separated into training and testing groups, and the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) dataset was used as the second testing group. The MRI MPRAGE image was reoriented via statistical parametric mapping (SPM12). Freesurfer was employed for brain segmentation, and 45 regional brain volumes were retrieved. The 3D Slicer software was employed for 107 radiomics feature extractions from within the whole brain. Data on patient demographics were collected from the datasets. The feed-forward neural network (FFNN) and the other most common artificial intelligence algorithms, including support vector machine (SVM), ensemble classifier (EC) and decision tree (DT), were used to build the models using various features. RESULTS The integration of brain regional volumes, radiomics and patient demographics attained the highest overall accuracy at 76.57% and 73.14% in ADNI and OASIS testing, respectively. The subclass accuracies in MCI, AD and CN were 78.29%, 89.71% and 85.14%, respectively, in ADNI testing, as well as 74.86%, 88% and 83.43% in OASIS testing. Balanced sensitivity and specificity were obtained for all subclass classifications in MCI, AD and CN. CONCLUSION The FFNN yielded good overall accuracy for MCI, AD and CN categorization, with balanced subclass accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. The proposed FFNN model is simple, and it may support the triage of patients for further confirmation of the diagnosis.
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- Eva Y. W. Cheung
- School of Medical and Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, 31 Wylie Road, HoManTin, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
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- School of Medical and Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, 31 Wylie Road, HoManTin, Hong Kong
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Zhao J, Jiao Y, Wang H, Song P, Gao Z, Bing X, Zhang C, Ouyang A, Yao J, Wang S, Jiang H. Radiomic features of the hippocampal based on magnetic resonance imaging in the menopausal mouse model linked to neuronal damage and cognitive deficits. Brain Imaging Behav 2024; 18:368-377. [PMID: 38102441 PMCID: PMC11156756 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-023-00808-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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Estrogen deficiency in the early postmenopausal phase is associated with an increased long-term risk of cognitive decline or dementia. Non-invasive characterization of the pathological features of the pathological hallmarks in the brain associated with postmenopausal women (PMW) could enhance patient management and the development of therapeutic strategies. Radiomics is a means to quantify the radiographic phenotype of a diseased tissue via the high-throughput extraction and mining of quantitative features from images acquired from modalities such as CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This study set out to explore the correlation between radiomics features based on MRI and pathological features of the hippocampus and cognitive function in the PMW mouse model. Ovariectomized (OVX) mice were used as PWM models. MRI scans were performed two months after surgery. The brain's hippocampal region was manually annotated, and the radiomic features were extracted with PyRadiomics. Chemiluminescence was used to evaluate the peripheral blood estrogen level of mice, and the Morris water maze test was used to evaluate the cognitive ability of mice. Nissl staining and immunofluorescence were used to quantify neuronal damage and COX1 expression in brain sections of mice. The OVX mice exhibited marked cognitive decline, brain neuronal damage, and increased expression of mitochondrial complex IV subunit COX1, which are pathological phenomena commonly observed in the brains of AD patients, and these phenotypes were significantly correlated with radiomics features (p < 0.05, |r|>0.5), including Original_firstorder_Interquartile Range, Original_glcm_Difference Average, Original_glcm_Difference Average and Wavelet-LHH_glszm_Small Area Emphasis. Meanwhile, the above radiomics features were significantly different between the sham-operated and OVX groups (p < 0.01) and were associated with decreased serum estrogen levels (p < 0.05, |r|>0.5). This initial study indicates that the above radiomics features may have a role in the assessment of the pathology of brain damage caused by estrogen deficiency using routinely acquired structural MR images.
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- Jie Zhao
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No.725, South Wanping Road, Shanghai, 200032, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China.
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Shahidi R, Baradaran M, Asgarzadeh A, Bagherieh S, Tajabadi Z, Farhadi A, Korani SS, Khalafi M, Shobeiri P, Sadeghsalehi H, Shafieioun A, Yazdanifar MA, Singhal A, Sotoudeh H. Diagnostic performance of MRI radiomics for classification of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and normal subjects: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Aging Clin Exp Res 2023; 35:2333-2348. [PMID: 37801265 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-023-02565-x] [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: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease. Early diagnosis of AD and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), is crucial for timely intervention and management. Radiomics involves extracting quantitative features from medical images and analyzing them using advanced computational algorithms. These characteristics have the potential to serve as biomarkers for disease classification, treatment response prediction, and patient stratification. Of note, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiomics showed a promising result for diagnosing and classifying AD, and MCI from normal subjects. Thus, we aimed to systematically evaluate the diagnostic performance of the MRI radiomics for this task. METHODS AND MATERIALS A comprehensive search of the current literature was conducted using relevant keywords in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science databases from inception to August 5, 2023. Original studies discussing the diagnostic performance of MRI radiomics for the classification of AD, MCI, and normal subjects were included. Method quality was evaluated with the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2) and the Radiomics Quality Score (RQS) tools. RESULTS We identified 13 studies that met the inclusion criteria, involving a total of 5448 participants. The overall quality of the included studies was moderate to high. The pooled sensitivity and specificity of MRI radiomics for differentiating AD from normal subjects were 0.92 (95% CI [0.85; 0.96]) and 0.91 (95% CI [0.85; 0.95]), respectively. The pooled sensitivity and specificity of MRI radiomics for differentiating MCI from normal subjects were 0.74 (95% CI [0.60; 0.85]) and 0.79 (95% CI [0.70; 0.86]), respectively. Also, the pooled sensitivity and specificity of MRI radiomics for differentiating AD from MCI were 0.73 (95% CI [0.64; 0.80]) and 0.79 (95% CI [0.64; 0.90]), respectively. CONCLUSION MRI radiomics has promising diagnostic performance in differentiating AD, MCI, and normal subjects. It can potentially serve as a non-invasive and reliable tool for early diagnosis and classification of AD and MCI.
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- Ramin Shahidi
- School of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, Imam Ali Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Science, Bojnurd, Iran
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- Students Research Committee, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
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- Isfahan Neurosciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Health, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Sciences, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Neuroradiology Section, Department of Radiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Neuroradiology Section, Department of Radiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, UAB, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, JTN 333, 619 19th St S, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.
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Cheung EYW, Wu RWK, Li ASM, Chu ESM. AI Deployment on GBM Diagnosis: A Novel Approach to Analyze Histopathological Images Using Image Feature-Based Analysis. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:5063. [PMID: 37894430 PMCID: PMC10605241 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15205063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Revised: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most common malignant primary brain tumors, which accounts for 60-70% of all gliomas. Conventional diagnosis and the decision of post-operation treatment plan for glioblastoma is mainly based on the feature-based qualitative analysis of hematoxylin and eosin-stained (H&E) histopathological slides by both an experienced medical technologist and a pathologist. The recent development of digital whole slide scanners makes AI-based histopathological image analysis feasible and helps to diagnose cancer by accurately counting cell types and/or quantitative analysis. However, the technology available for digital slide image analysis is still very limited. This study aimed to build an image feature-based computer model using histopathology whole slide images to differentiate patients with glioblastoma (GBM) from healthy control (HC). METHOD Two independent cohorts of patients were used. The first cohort was composed of 262 GBM patients of the Cancer Genome Atlas Glioblastoma Multiform Collection (TCGA-GBM) dataset from the cancer imaging archive (TCIA) database. The second cohort was composed of 60 GBM patients collected from a local hospital. Also, a group of 60 participants with no known brain disease were collected. All the H&E slides were collected. Thirty-three image features (22 GLCM and 11 GLRLM) were retrieved from the tumor volume delineated by medical technologist on H&E slides. Five machine-learning algorithms including decision-tree (DT), extreme-boost (EB), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and linear model (LM) were used to build five models using the image features extracted from the first cohort of patients. Models built were deployed using the selected key image features for GBM diagnosis from the second cohort (local patients) as model testing, to identify and verify key image features for GBM diagnosis. RESULTS All five machine learning algorithms demonstrated excellent performance in GBM diagnosis and achieved an overall accuracy of 100% in the training and validation stage. A total of 12 GLCM and 3 GLRLM image features were identified and they showed a significant difference between the normal and the GBM image. However, only the SVM model maintained its excellent performance in the deployment of the models using the independent local cohort, with an accuracy of 93.5%, sensitivity of 86.95%, and specificity of 99.73%. CONCLUSION In this study, we have identified 12 GLCM and 3 GLRLM image features which can aid the GBM diagnosis. Among the five models built, the SVM model proposed in this study demonstrated excellent accuracy with very good sensitivity and specificity. It could potentially be used for GBM diagnosis and future clinical application.
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- Eva Y. W. Cheung
- School of Medical and Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, 31 Wylie Road, HoManTin, Hong Kong;
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- Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK;
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- School of Medical and Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, 31 Wylie Road, HoManTin, Hong Kong;
- Department of Clinical Pathology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong
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- School of Medical and Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, 31 Wylie Road, HoManTin, Hong Kong;
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Tafuri B, Filardi M, Urso D, Gnoni V, De Blasi R, Nigro S, Logroscino G. Asymmetry of radiomics features in the white matter of patients with primary progressive aphasia. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1120935. [PMID: 37213534 PMCID: PMC10196268 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1120935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023] Open
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Introduction Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a neurological disease characterized by linguistic deficits. Semantic (svPPA) and non-fluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) variants are the two main clinical subtypes. We applied a novel analytical framework, based on radiomic analysis, to investigate White Matter (WM) asymmetry and to examine whether asymmetry is associated with verbal fluency performance. Methods Analyses were performed on T1-weighted images including 56 patients with PPA (31 svPPA and 25 nfvPPA) and 53 age- and sex-matched controls. Asymmetry Index (AI) was computed for 86 radiomics features in 34 white matter regions. The relationships between AI, verbal fluency performance (semantic and phonemic) and Boston Naming Test score (BNT) were explored through Spearman correlation analysis. Results Relative to controls, WM asymmetry in svPPA patients involved regions adjacent to middle temporal cortex as part of the inferior longitudinal (ILF), fronto-occipital (IFOF) and superior longitudinal fasciculi. Conversely, nfvPPA patients showed an asymmetry of WM in lateral occipital regions (ILF/IFOF). A higher lateralization involving IFOF, cingulum and forceps minor was found in nfvPPA compared to svPPA patients. In nfvPPA patients, semantic fluency was positively correlated to asymmetry in ILF/IFOF tracts. Performances at BNT were associated with AI values of the middle temporal (ILF/SLF) and parahippocampal (ILF/IFOF) gyri in svPPA patients. Discussion Radiomics features depicted distinct pathways of asymmetry in svPPA and nfvPPA involving damage of principal fiber tracts associated with speech and language. Assessing asymmetry of radiomics in PPA allows achieving a deeper insight into the neuroanatomical damage and may represent a candidate severity marker for language impairments in PPA patients.
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- Benedetta Tafuri
- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- *Correspondence: Benedetta Tafuri,
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom
- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Pia Fondazione di Culto e Religione “Card. G. Panico”, Tricase, Italy
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Detection of Aspartylglucosaminuria Patients from Magnetic Resonance Images by a Machine-Learning-Based Approach. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12111522. [PMID: 36358448 PMCID: PMC9688716 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12111522] [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: 09/18/2022] [Revised: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging data can be used to develop computer-assisted diagnostic tools for neurodegenerative diseases such as aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) and other lysosomal storage disorders. MR images contain features that are suitable for the classification and differentiation of affected individuals from healthy persons. Here, comparisons were made between MRI features extracted from different types of magnetic resonance images. Random forest classifiers were trained to classify AGU patients (n = 22) and healthy controls (n = 24) using volumetric features extracted from T1-weighted MR images, the zone variance of gray level size zone matrix (GLSZM) calculated from magnitude susceptibility-weighted MR images, and the caudate–thalamus intensity ratio computed from T2-weighted MR images. The leave-one-out cross-validation and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve were used to compare different models. The left–right-averaged, normalized volumes of the 25 nuclei of the thalamus and the zone variance of the thalamus demonstrated equal and excellent performance as classifier features for binary organization between AGU patients and healthy controls. Our findings show that texture-based features of susceptibility-weighted images and thalamic volumes can differentiate AGU patients from healthy controls with a very low error rate.
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Radiomics from Various Tumour Volume Sizes for Prognosis Prediction of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Voted Ensemble Machine Learning Approach. Life (Basel) 2022; 12:life12091380. [PMID: 36143416 PMCID: PMC9505304 DOI: 10.3390/life12091380] [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: 07/05/2022] [Revised: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background: Traditionally, cancer prognosis was determined by tumours size, lymph node spread and presence of metastasis (TNM staging). Radiomics of tumour volume has recently been used for prognosis prediction. In the present study, we evaluated the effect of various sizes of tumour volume. A voted ensemble approach with a combination of multiple machine learning algorithms is proposed for prognosis prediction for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Methods: A total of 215 HNSCC CT image sets with radiotherapy structure sets were acquired from The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA). Six tumour volumes, including gross tumour volume (GTV), diminished GTV, extended GTV, planning target volume (PTV), diminished PTV and extended PTV were delineated. The extracted radiomics features were analysed by decision tree, random forest, extreme boost, support vector machine and generalized linear algorithms. A voted ensemble machine learning (VEML) model that optimizes the above algorithms was used. The receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (ROC-AUC) were used to compare the performance of machine learning methods, including accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. Results: The VEML model demonstrated good prognosis prediction ability for all sizes of tumour volumes with reference to GTV and PTV with high accuracy of up to 88.3%, sensitivity of up to 79.9% and specificity of up to 96.6%. There was no significant difference between the various target volumes for the prognostic prediction of HNSCC patients (chi-square test, p > 0.05). Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that the proposed VEML model can accurately predict the prognosis of HNSCC patients using radiomics features from various tumour volumes.
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