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ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2021

Decision-support for treatment with

Sobhan Moazemi, Annette Erle, Zain Khurshid, Susanne Lütje, Michael Muders, Markus Essler, Thomas Schultz, Ralph A Bundschuh

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Article in Annals of translational medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sobhan MoazemiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Annette ErleDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Zain KhurshidNuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy Institute, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Susanne LütjeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Michael MudersDepartment of Pathology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Markus EsslerDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Thomas SchultzDepartment of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Ralph A BundschuhDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
University Hospital Bonn · DEBonn Aachen International Center for Information Technology · DEUniversity of Bonn · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTreatment with radiolabeled ligands to prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is gaining importance in the treatment of patients with advanced prostate carcinoma. Previous imaging with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is mandatory. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of radiomics features in PSMA-PET/CT scans and clinical parameters to predict response to

methodsA total of 2,070 pathological hotspots annotated in 83 prostate cancer patients undergoing PSMA therapy were analyzed. Two main tasks are performed: (I) analyzing correlation of averaged (per patient) values of radiomics features of individual hotspots and clinical parameters with difference in prostate specific antigen levels (ΔPSA) in pre- and post-therapy as a therapy response indicator. (II) ML-based classification of patients into responders and non-responders based on averaged features values and clinical parameters. To achieve this, machine learning (ML) algorithms and linear regression tests are applied. Grid search, cross validation (CV) and permutation test were performed to assure that the results were significant.

resultsRadiomics features (PET_Min, PET_Correlation, CT_Min, CT_Busyness and CT_Coarseness) and clinical parameters such as Alp1 and Gleason score showed best correlations with ΔPSA. For the treatment response prediction task, 80% area under the curve (AUC), 75% sensitivity (SE), and 75% specificity (SP) were obtained, applying ML support vector machine (SVM) classifier with radial basis function (RBF) kernel on a selection of radiomics features and clinical parameters with strong correlations with ΔPSA.

conclusionsMachine learning based on

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computed tomography (CT)machine learning (ML)positron emission tomography (PET)Prostate cancer (PC)prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA)

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