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ArticleEBioMedicine2020

Optimal co-clinical radiomics: Sensitivity of radiomic features to tumour volume, image noise and resolution in co-clinical T1-weighted and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.

Sudipta Roy, Timothy D Whitehead, James D Quirk, Amber Salter, Foluso O Ademuyiwa, Shunqiang Li, Hongyu An, Kooresh I Shoghi

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sudipta RoyDepartment of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Timothy D WhiteheadDepartment of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
James D QuirkDepartment of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Amber SalterDivision of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA.
Foluso O AdemuyiwaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA.
Shunqiang LiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA.
Hongyu AnDepartment of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA.
Kooresh I ShoghiDepartment of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA. Electronic address: shoghik@wustl.edu.

Funding

Washington University Center for Cellular ImagingP30CA091842 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI AIMEE S JAMES · 2001 to 2026
$128.0M
Washington University PDX Development and Trial Center - Evaluation of Abemaciclib in Combination with Olaparib in Ovarian Cancer and Breast Cancer Patient-derived Xenograft ModelsU54CA224083 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Brian Andrew Van Tine · 2017 to 2026
$13.0M
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HUMAN TUMOR ATLAS RESEARCH CENTERU2CCA233303 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI DING, LI · 2018 to 2023
$9.7M
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CO-CLINICAL IMAGING RESEARCH RESOURCEU24CA209837 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Li Ding, Shunqiang Li · 2017 to 2026
$6.3M
ACQUISITION OF A PRE-CLINICAL SIMULTANEOUS PET/MR SCANNERS10OD018515 · OD · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LAFOREST, RICHARD ANDRE · 2016 to 2016
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA091842NCI NIH HHS U24 CA209837NCI NIH HHS U2C CA233303NCI NIH HHS U54 CA224083NIH HHS S10 OD018515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRadiomics analyses has been proposed to interrogate the biology of tumour as well as to predict/assess response to therapy in vivo. The objective of this work was to assess the sensitivity of radiomics features to noise, resolution, and tumour volume in the context of a co-clinical trial.

methodsTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients were recruited into an ongoing co-clinical imaging trial. Sub-typed matched TNBC patient-derived tumour xenografts (PDX) were generated to investigate optimal co-clinical MR radiomic features. The MR imaging protocol included T1-weighed and T2-weighted imaging. To test the sensitivity of radiomics to resolution, PDX were imaged at three different resolutions. Multiple sets of images with varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were generated, and an image independent patch-based method was implemented to measure the noise levels. Forty-eight radiomic features were extracted from manually segmented 2D and 3D segmented tumours and normal tissues of T1- and T2- weighted co-clinical MR images.

findingsSixteen radiomics features were identified as volume dependent and corrected for volume-dependency following normalization. Features from grey-level run-length matrix (GLRLM), grey-level size zone matrix (GLSZM) were identified as most sensitive to noise. Radiomic features Kurtosis and Run-length variance (RLV) from GLSZM were most sensitive to changes in resolution in both T1w and T2w MRI. In general, 3D radiomic features were more robust compared to 2D (single slice) measures, although the former exhibited higher variability between subjects.

interpretationTumour volume, noise characteristics, and image resolution significantly impact radiomic analysis in co-clinical studies.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingFemaleHumansNeoplasm GradingNeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySignal-To-Noise RatioTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsTumor BurdenBreast cancerCo-clinicalMRIQuantitative imagingRadiomicsSensitivityTNBC

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PMCPMC7479492

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