Quantification of lung function on CT images based on pulmonary radiomic filtering

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PURPOSE: To develop a radiomics filtering technique for characterizing spatial-encoded regional pulmonary ventilation information on lung computed tomography (CT).

METHODS: The lung volume was segmented on 46 CT images, and a 3D sliding window kernel was implemented across the lung volume to capture the spatial-encoded image information. Fifty-three radiomic features were extracted within the kernel, resulting in a fourth-order tensor object. As such, each voxel coordinate of the original lung was represented as a 53-dimensional feature vector, such that radiomic features could be viewed as feature maps within the lungs. To test the technique as a potential pulmonary ventilation biomarker, the radiomic feature maps were compared to paired functional images (Galligas PET or DTPA-SPECT) based on the Spearman correlation (ρ) analysis.

RESULTS: The radiomic feature maps GLRLM-based Run-Length Non-Uniformity and GLCOM-based Sum Average are found to be highly correlated with the functional imaging. The achieved ρ (median [range]) for the two features are 0.46 [0.05, 0.67] and 0.45 [0.21, 0.65] across 46 patients and 2 functional imaging modalities, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: The results provide evidence that local regions of sparsely encoded heterogeneous lung parenchyma on CT are associated with diminished radiotracer uptake and measured lung ventilation defects on PET/SPECT imaging. These findings demonstrate the potential of radiomics to serve as a complementary tool to the current lung quantification techniques and provide hypothesis-generating data for future studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Medical physics - 49(2022), 11 vom: 30. Nov., Seite 7278-7286

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yang, Zhenyu [VerfasserIn]
Lafata, Kyle J [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xinru [VerfasserIn]
Bowsher, James [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Yushi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chunhao [VerfasserIn]
Yin, Fang-Fang [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Pulmonary ventilation
Radiomic
Radiomic filtering

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Date Completed 15.12.2022

Date Revised 15.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/mp.15837

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM342918028