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ArticleScientific reports2021

A comparative study to evaluate CT-based semantic and radiomic features in preoperative diagnosis of invasive pulmonary adenocarcinomas manifesting as subsolid nodules.

Yun-Ju Wu, Yung-Chi Liu, Chien-Yang Liao, En-Kuei Tang, Fu-Zong Wu

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Yun-Ju Wu *Section of Thoracic and Circulation Imaging, Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, No.386, Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 81362, Taiwan.
Yung-Chi Liu *Department of Radiology, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China.
Chien-Yang Liao *Section of Thoracic and Circulation Imaging, Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, No.386, Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 81362, Taiwan.
En-Kuei TangDepartment of Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Fu-Zong WuSection of Thoracic and Circulation Imaging, Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, No.386, Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 81362, Taiwan. cmvwu1029@gmail.com.

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This study aims to predict the histological invasiveness of pulmonary adenocarcinoma spectrum manifesting with subsolid nodules ≦ 3 cm using the preoperative CT-based radiomic approach. A total of 186 patients with 203 SSNs confirmed with surgically pathologic proof were retrospectively reviewed from February 2016 to March 2020 for training cohort modeling. The validation cohort included 50 subjects with 57 SSNs confirmed with surgically pathologic proof from April 2020 to August 2020. CT-based radiomic features were extracted using an open-source software with 3D nodular volume segmentation manually. The association between CT-based conventional features/selected radiomic features and histological invasiveness of pulmonary adenocarcinoma status were analyzed. Diagnostic models were built using conventional CT features, selected radiomic CT features and experienced radiologists. In addition, we compared diagnostic performance between radiomic CT feature, conventional CT features and experienced radiologists. In the training cohort of 203 SSNs, there were 106 invasive lesions and 97 pre-invasive lesions. Logistic analysis identified that a selected radiomic feature named GLCM_Entropy_log10 was the predictor for histological invasiveness of pulmonary adenocarcinoma spectrum (OR: 38.081, 95% CI 2.735-530.309, p = 0.007). The sensitivity and specificity for predicting histological invasiveness of pulmonary adenocarcinoma spectrum using the cutoff value of CT-based radiomic parameter (GLCM_Entropy_log10) were 84.8% and 79.2% respectively (area under curve, 0.878). The diagnostic model of CT-based radiomic feature was compared to those of conventional CT feature (morphologic and quantitative) and three experienced radiologists. The diagnostic performance of radiomic feature was similar to those of the quantitative CT feature (nodular size and solid component, both lung and mediastinal window) in prediction invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma (IPA). The AUC value of CT radiomic feature was higher than those of conventional CT morphologic feature and three experienced radiologists. The c-statistic of the training cohort model was 0.878 (95% CI 0.831-0.925) and 0.923 (0.854-0.991) in the validation cohort. Calibration was good in both cohorts. The diagnostic performance of CT-based radiomic feature is not inferior to solid component (lung and mediastinal window) and nodular size for predicting invasiveness. CT-based radiomic feature and nomogram could help to differentiate IPA lesions from preinvasive lesions in the both independent training and validation cohorts. The nomogram may help clinicians with decision making in the management of subsolid nodules.

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Adenocarcinoma of LungAgedClinical Decision-MakingDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm InvasivenessNomogramsPreoperative PeriodRadiography, ThoracicRadiologistsRetrospective Studies

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