The value of radiomics-based CT combined with machine learning in the diagnosis of occult vertebral fractures

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PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate the performance of radiomics-based computed tomography (CT) combined with machine learning algorithms in detecting occult vertebral fractures (OVFs).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: 128 vertebrae including 64 with OVF confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging and 64 corresponding control vertebrae from 57 patients who underwent chest/abdominal CT scans, were included. The CT radiomics features on mid-axial and mid-sagittal plane of each vertebra were extracted. The fractured and normal vertebrae were randomly divided into training set and validation set at a ratio of 8:2. Pearson correlation analyses and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator were used for selecting sagittal and axial features, respectively. Three machine-learning algorithms were used to construct the radiomics models based on the residual features. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to verify the performance of model.

RESULTS: For mid-axial CT imaging, 6 radiomics parameters were obtained and used for building the models. The logistic regression (LR) algorithm showed the best performance with area under the ROC curves (AUC) of training and validation sets of 0.682 and 0.775. For mid-sagittal CT imaging, 5 parameters were selected, and LR algorithms showed the best performance with AUC of training and validation sets of 0.832 and 0.882. The LR model based on sagittal CT yielded the best performance, with an accuracy of 0.846, sensitivity of 0.846, and specificity of 0.846.

CONCLUSION: Machine learning based on CT radiomics features allows for the detection of OVFs, especially the LR model based on the radiomics of sagittal imaging, which indicates it is promising to further combine with deep learning to achieve automatic recognition of OVFs to reduce the associated secondary injury.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC musculoskeletal disorders - 24(2023), 1 vom: 17. Okt., Seite 819

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Wu-Gen [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Rou [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Wei-Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tong-Tong [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Huashan [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Yun [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Liang-Geng [VerfasserIn]

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CT
Journal Article
Machine learning
Occult vertebral fractures
Radiomics

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Date Completed 23.10.2023

Date Revised 21.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12891-023-06939-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363414029