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ArticleCancers2021

A Multicentre Evaluation of Dosiomics Features Reproducibility, Stability and Sensitivity.

Lorenzo Placidi, Eliana Gioscio, Cristina Garibaldi, Tiziana Rancati, Annarita Fanizzi, Davide Maestri, Raffaella Massafra, Enrico Menghi, Alfredo Mirandola, Giacomo Reggiori and 6 more

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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2 · The registry

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Lorenzo PlacidiFondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, 00168 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0058-9145
Eliana GioscioProstate Cancer Program, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Cristina GaribaldiIEO, Unit of Radiation Research, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Tiziana RancatiProstate Cancer Program, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7849-603X
Annarita FanizziI.R.C.C.S. Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2729-9896
Davide MaestriFondazione CNAO, Strada Campeggi 53, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Raffaella MassafraI.R.C.C.S. Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Enrico MenghiIRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8051-9640
Alfredo MirandolaFondazione CNAO, Strada Campeggi 53, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Giacomo ReggioriMedical Physics Service, Radiation Oncology Department, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano-Milan, Italy.
Roberto SghedoniAzienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Pasquale TamborraI.R.C.C.S. Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Stefania ComiIEO, Unit of Medical Physics, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Jacopo LenkowiczFondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, 00168 Roma, Italy.
Luca BoldriniFondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, 00168 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5631-1575
Michele AvanzoMedical Physics Department, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, 33081 Aviano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1711-4242

Funding

ERA-NET ERA PerMed / FRRB grant agreement ERAPERMED2018-244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dosiomics is a texture analysis method to produce dose features that encode the spatial 3D distribution of radiotherapy dose. Dosiomic studies, in a multicentre setting, require assessing the features' stability to dose calculation settings and the features' capability in distinguishing different dose distributions. Dose distributions were generated by eight Italian centres on a shared image dataset acquired on a dedicated phantom. Treatment planning protocols, in terms of planning target volume coverage and dose-volume constraints to the organs at risk, were shared among the centres to produce comparable dose distributions for measuring reproducibility/stability and sensitivity of dosiomic features. In addition, coefficient of variation (CV) was employed to evaluate the dosiomic features' variation. We extracted 38,160 features from 30 different dose distributions from six regions of interest, grouped by four features' families. A selected group of features (CV < 3 for the reproducibility/stability studies, CV > 1 for the sensitivity studies) were identified to support future multicentre studies, assuring both stable features when dose distributions variation is minimal and sensitive features when dose distribution variations need to be clearly identified. Dosiomic is a promising tool that could support multicentre studies, especially for predictive models, and encode the spatial and statistical characteristics of the 3D dose distribution.

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dose distribution texture analysisdosiomicsmulticentric studyradiation dosimetryradiotherapyreproducibilitysensitivitystability

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PMID34359737
PMCPMC8345157

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