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ReviewClinical and translational radiation oncology2021

Radiomic biomarkers of tumor immune biology and immunotherapy response.

Jarey H Wang, Kareem A Wahid, Lisanne V van Dijk, Keyvan Farahani, Reid F Thompson, Clifton David Fuller

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Review in Clinical and translational radiation oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jarey H WangMedical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
Kareem A WahidDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Lisanne V van DijkDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Keyvan FarahaniCenter for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Reid F ThompsonDepartment of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States.
Clifton David FullerDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.

Funding

Quantifying and improving radiotherapy outcomes among VeteransIK2CX002049 · VA · PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI THOMPSON, REID · 2020 to 2025
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CSRD VA IK2 CX002049
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapies are leading to improved outcomes for many cancers, including those with devastating prognoses. As therapies like immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) become a mainstay in treatment regimens, many concurrent challenges have arisen - for instance, delineating clinical responders from non-responders. Predicting response has proven to be difficult given a lack of consistent and accurate biomarkers, heterogeneity of the tumor microenvironment (TME), and a poor understanding of resistance mechanisms. For the most part, imaging data have remained an untapped, yet abundant, resource to address these challenges. In recent years, quantitative image analyses have highlighted the utility of medical imaging in predicting tumor phenotypes, prognosis, and therapeutic response. These studies have been fueled by an explosion of resources in high-throughput mining of image features (i.e. radiomics) and artificial intelligence. In this review, we highlight current progress in radiomics to understand tumor immune biology and predict clinical responses to immunotherapies. We also discuss limitations in these studies and future directions for the field, particularly if high-dimensional imaging data are to play a larger role in precision medicine.

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BiomarkersImaging genomicsImmunotherapyPrecision medicineRadiogenomicsRadiomicsTumor immunology

Identifiers

PMID33937530
PMCPMC8076712

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