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ArticleJCO clinical cancer informatics2021

Toward an Optimized Staging System for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Clinically Interpretable, Artificial Intelligence-Based Model.

Dimitris Bertsimas, Georgios Antonios Margonis, Yifei Huang, Nikolaos Andreatos, Holly Wiberg, Yu Ma, Caitlin Mcintyre, Alessandra Pulvirenti, Doris Wagner, J L van Dam and 18 more

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Article in JCO clinical cancer informatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors at 10 institutions in 6 countries.

Dimitris BertsimasOperations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.ORCID 0000-0002-1985-1003
Georgios Antonios MargonisDepartment of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.ORCID 0000-0003-4894-5743
Yifei HuangOperations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Nikolaos AndreatosDepartment of Internal Medicine and Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Holly WibergOperations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.ORCID 0000-0002-4251-905X
Yu MaOperations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Caitlin McintyreDepartment of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Alessandra PulvirentiSection of Pancreatic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9542-9165
Doris WagnerDepartment of General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
J L van DamDepartment of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6947-9035
Francesca GavazziSection of Pancreatic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3207-0292
Stefan BuettnerDepartment of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0942-127X
Katsunori ImaiDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
Georgios StasinosTechnical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TCG), Athens, Greece.
Jin HeDepartment of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.ORCID 0000-0001-9149-2247
Carsten KamphuesDepartment of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5406-8540
Katharina BeyerDepartment of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
Hendrik SeeligerDepartment of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5937-052X
Matthew J WeissDepartment of Surgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY.
Martin KreisDepartment of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
John L CameronDepartment of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Alice C WeiDepartment of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Peter KornpratDepartment of General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-3114-4579
Hideo BabaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3474-2550
Bas Groot KoerkampDepartment of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1917-6973
Alessandro ZerbiSection of Pancreatic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9176-0448
Michael D'AngelicaDepartment of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Christopher L WolfgangDepartment of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USErasmus MC · NLHumanitas University · ITJohns Hopkins University · USKumamoto University · JPMedical University of Graz · ATCleveland Clinic · USNorthwell Health · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) eighth edition schema for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma treats T and N stage as independent factors and uses positive lymph nodes (PLNs) to define N stage, despite data favoring lymph node ratio (LNR). We used artificial intelligence-based techniques to compare PLN with LNR and investigate interactions between tumor size and nodal status.

methodsPatients who underwent pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma resection between 2000 and 2017 at six institutions were identified. LNR and PLN were compared through shapley additive explanations (SHAP) analysis, with the best predictor used to define nodal status. We trained optimal classification trees (OCTs) to predict 1-year and 3-year risk of death, incorporating only tumor size and nodal status as variables. The OCTs were compared with the AJCC schema and similarly trained XGBoost models. Variable interactions were explored via SHAP.

resultsTwo thousand eight hundred seventy-four patients comprised the derivation and 1,231 the validation cohort. SHAP identified LNR as a superior predictor. The OCTs outperformed the AJCC schema in the derivation and validation cohorts (1-year area under the curve: 0.681

conclusionOur findings highlight the superiority of LNR and the importance of interactions between tumor size and nodal status. These results and the potential of the OCT methodology to combine them into a powerful, visually interpretable model can help inform future staging systems.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalPancreatic NeoplasmsArtificial IntelligenceHumansLymphatic MetastasisLymph NodesNeoplasm StagingPrognosis

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PMID34936469
PMCPMC9848537
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