A preliminary PET radiomics study of brain metastases using a fully automatic segmentation method
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A preliminary PET radiomics study of brain metastases using a fully automatic segmentation method Alessandro Stefano1, Albert Comelli1,2, Valentina Bravatà1* , Stefano Barone3, Igor Daskalovski4, Gaetano Savoca1, Maria Gabriella Sabini5, Massimo Ippolito6 and Giorgio Russo1,5 From Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2019) Palermo, Italy. 26-28 June 2019
* Correspondence: valentina. [email protected] 1 Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council (IBFM-CNR), Cefalù, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Abstract Background: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is increasingly utilized in radiomics studies for treatment evaluation purposes. Nevertheless, lesion volume identification in PET images is a critical and still challenging step in the process of radiomics, due to the low spatial resolution and high noise level of PET images. Currently, the biological target volume (BTV) is manually contoured by nuclear physicians, with a time expensive and operator-dependent procedure. This study aims to obtain BTVs from cerebral metastases in patients who underwent L[11C]methionine (11C-MET) PET, using a fully automatic procedure and to use these BTVs to extract radiomics features to stratify between patients who respond to treatment or not. For these purposes, 31 brain metastases, for predictive evaluation, and 25 ones, for follow-up evaluation after treatment, were delineated using the proposed method. Successively, 11C-MET PET studies and related volumetric segmentations were used to extract 108 features to investigate the potential application of radiomics analysis in patients with brain metastases. A novel statistical system has been implemented for feature reduction and selection, while discriminant analysis was used as a method for feature classification. Results: For predictive evaluation, 3 features (asphericity, low-intensity run emphasis, and complexity) were able to discriminate between responder and non-responder patients, after feature reduction and selection. Best performance in patient discrimination was obtained using the combination of the three selected features (sensitivity 81.23%, specificity 73.97%, and accuracy 78.27%) compared to the use of all features. Secondly, for follow-up evaluation, 8 features (SUVmean, SULpeak, SUVmin, SULpeak prod-surface-area, SUVmean prod-sphericity, surface mean SUV 3, SULpeak prod-sphericity, and second angular moment) were selected with optimal performance in discriminant analysis classification (sensitivity 86.28%, specificity 87.75%, and accuracy 86.57%) outperforming the use of all features. (Continued on next page)
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