Evaluating the Effectiveness of 2D and 3D CT Image Features for Predicting Tumor Response to Chemotherapy

Background and Objective: 2D and 3D tumor features are widely used in a variety of medical image analysis tasks. However, for chemotherapy response prediction, the effectiveness between different kinds of 2D and 3D features are not comprehensively assessed, especially in ovarian-cancer-related applications. This investigation aims to accomplish such a comprehensive evaluation. Methods: For this purpose, CT images were collected retrospectively from 188 advanced-stage ovarian cancer patients. All the metastatic tumors that occurred in each patient were segmented and then processed by a set of six filters. Next, three categories of features, namely geometric, density, and texture features, were calculated from both the filtered results and the original segmented tumors, generating a total of 1403 and 1595 features for the 2D and 3D tumors, respectively. In addition to the conventional single-slice 2D and full-volume 3D tumor features, we also computed the incomplete-3D tumor features, which were achieved by sequentially adding one individual CT slice and calculating the corresponding features. Support vector machine (SVM)-based prediction models were developed and optimized for each feature set. Five-fold cross-validation was used to assess the performance of each individual model. Results: The results show that the 2D feature-based model achieved an AUC (area under the ROC curve (receiver operating characteristic)) of 0.84 ± 0.02. When adding more slices, the AUC first increased to reach the maximum and then gradually decreased to 0.86 ± 0.02. The maximum AUC was yielded when adding two adjacent slices, with a value of 0.91 ± 0.01. Conclusions: This initial result provides meaningful information for optimizing machine learning-based decision-making support tools in the future.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) - 10(2023), 11 vom: 20. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Abdoli, Neman [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Gilley, Patrik [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xuxin [VerfasserIn]
Sadri, Youkabed [VerfasserIn]
Thai, Theresa [VerfasserIn]
Dockery, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Moore, Kathleen [VerfasserIn]
Mannel, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Yuchen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2D and 3D features
Chemotherapy response prediction
Incomplete 3D features
Journal Article
Ovarian cancer
Precision medicine
Radiomics

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Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/bioengineering10111334

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364936762