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ArticleJournal of digital imaging2021

Overall Survival Prediction in Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Using Computed Tomography Radiomic and Clinical Information.

Zahra Khodabakhshi, Mehdi Amini, Shayan Mostafaei, Atlas Haddadi Avval, Mostafa Nazari, Mehrdad Oveisi, Isaac Shiri, Habib Zaidi

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Article in Journal of digital imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Zahra KhodabakhshiRajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
Mehdi AminiDivision of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland.
Shayan MostafaeiDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Atlas Haddadi AvvalSchool of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Mostafa NazariDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mehrdad OveisiDepartment of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Isaac ShiriDivision of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland.
Habib ZaidiDivision of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland. habib.zaidi@hcuge.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-7559-5297

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation SNRF 320030_176052.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate the applicability of radiomic features alone and in combination with clinical information for the prediction of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients' overall survival after partial or radical nephrectomy. Clinical studies of 210 RCC patients from The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) who underwent either partial or radical nephrectomy were included in this study. Regions of interest (ROIs) were manually defined on CT images. A total of 225 radiomic features were extracted and analyzed along with the 59 clinical features. An elastic net penalized Cox regression was used for feature selection. Accelerated failure time (AFT) with the shared frailty model was used to determine the effects of the selected features on the overall survival time. Eleven radiomic and twelve clinical features were selected based on their non-zero coefficients. Tumor grade, tumor malignancy, and pathology t-stage were the most significant predictors of overall survival (OS) among the clinical features (p < 0.002, < 0.02, and < 0.018, respectively). The most significant predictors of OS among the selected radiomic features were flatness, area density, and median (p < 0.02, < 0.02, and < 0.05, respectively). Along with important clinical features, such as tumor heterogeneity and tumor grade, imaging biomarkers such as tumor flatness, area density, and median are significantly correlated with OS of RCC patients.

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Carcinoma, Renal CellKidney NeoplasmsHumansRetrospective StudiesTomography, X-Ray ComputedCTMachine learningRadiomicsRenal cell carcinomaSurvival prediction

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PMID34382117
PMCPMC8554934

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