Distinguishing recurrence from radiation-induced lung injury at the time of RECIST progressive disease on post-SABR CT scans using radiomics

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Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a highly effective treatment for patients with early-stage lung cancer who are inoperable. However, SABR causes benign radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) which appears as lesion growth on follow-up CT scans. This triggers the standard definition of progressive disease, yet cancer recurrence is not usually present, and distinguishing RILI from recurrence when a lesion appears to grow in size is critical but challenging. In this study, we developed a tool to do this using scans with apparent lesion growth after SABR from 68 patients. We performed bootstrapped experiments using radiomics and explored the use of multiple regions of interest (ROIs). The best model had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.66 and used a sphere with a diameter equal to the lesion's longest axial measurement as the ROI. We also investigated the effect of using inter-feature and volume correlation filters and found that the former was detrimental to performance and that the latter had no effect. We also found that the radiomics features ranked as highly important by the model were significantly correlated with outcomes. These findings represent a key step in developing a tool that can help determine who would benefit from follow-up invasive interventions when a SABR-treated lesion increases in size, which could help provide better treatment for patients.

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E-Artikel

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

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Scientific reports - 14(2024), 1 vom: 14. Feb., Seite 3758

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dammak, Salma [VerfasserIn]
Gulstene, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Palma, David A [VerfasserIn]
Mattonen, Sarah A [VerfasserIn]
Senan, Suresh [VerfasserIn]
Ward, Aaron D [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 16.02.2024

Date Revised 17.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41598-024-52828-4

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NLM368458725