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ArticleAcademic radiology2022

Early Differentiation of Irreversible Electroporation Ablation Regions With Radiomics Features of Conventional MRI.

Aydin Eresen, Chong Sun, Kang Zhou, Junjie Shangguan, Bin Wang, Liang Pan, Su Hu, Quanhong Ma, Jia Yang, Zhuoli Zhang and 1 more

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Article in Academic radiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Aydin EresenDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
Chong SunDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
Kang ZhouDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China.
Junjie ShangguanDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Bin WangDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Guangzhou, China.
Liang PanDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Radiology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Su HuDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Quanhong MaDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
Jia YangDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Zhuoli ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
Vahid YaghmaiDepartment of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California; Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California. Electronic address: vyaghmai@hs.uci.edu.
Northwestern University · USQingdao University · CNUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

MRI-Guided Dendritic-Cell-Based Vaccine Immunotherapy for Pancreatic CancerR01CA209886 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Vahid Yaghmai, Zhuoli Zhang · 2016 to 2026
$3.3M
Image-guided Interventional Combination Liver Cancer ImmunotherapyR01CA241532 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI YAGHMAI, VAHID, ZHANG, ZHUOLI · 2020 to 2024
$1.8M
MRI-Guided Irreversible Electroporation Ablation for Liver TumorsR01CA196967 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ZHANG, ZHUOLI · 2015 to 2018
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA196967NCI NIH HHS R01 CA209886NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241532OCPHP CDC HHS U38 PR000012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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objectivesIrreversible electroporation (IRE) is a promising non-thermal ablation technique for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Early differentiation of the IRE zone from surrounding reversibly electroporated (RE) penumbra is vital for the evaluation of treatment response. In this study, an advanced statistical learning framework was developed by evaluating standard MRI data to differentiate IRE ablation zones, and to correlate with histological tumor biomarkers. MATERIALS AND

methodsFourteen rabbits with VX2 liver tumors were scanned following IRE ablation and forty-six features were extracted from T1w and T2w MRI. Following identification of key imaging variables through two-step feature analysis, multivariable classification and regression models were generated for differentiation of IRE ablation zones, and correlation with histological markers reflecting viable tumor cells, microvessel density, and apoptosis rate. The performance of the multivariable models was assessed by measuring accuracy, receiver operating characteristics curve analysis, and Spearman correlation coefficients.

resultsThe classifiers integrating four radiomics features of T1w, T2w, and T1w+T2w MRI data distinguished IRE from RE zones with an accuracy of 97%, 80%, and 97%, respectively. Also, pixelwise classification models of T1w, T2w, and T1w+T2w MRI labeled each voxel with an accuracy of 82.8%, 66.5%, and 82.9%, respectively. Regression models obtained a strong correlation with behavior of viable tumor cells (0.62 ≤ r

conclusionMRI radiomics features provide descriptive power for early differentiation of IRE and RE zones while observing strong correlations among multivariable MRI regression models and histological tumor biomarkers.

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Ablation TechniquesCarcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsAnimalsBiomarkers, TumorElectroporationMagnetic Resonance ImagingRabbitsBiomarkers, TumorHepatocellular carcinomaIrreversible electroporationMagnetic resonance imagingRandom ForestTexture analysis

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