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ArticleLa Radiologia medica2022

CT-based radiomics modeling for skull dysmorphology severity and surgical outcome prediction in children with isolated sagittal synostosis: a hypothesis-generating study.

Rosalinda Calandrelli, Luca Boldrini, Huong Elena Tran, Vincenzo Quinci, Luca Massimi, Fabio Pilato, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Claudio Votta, Cesare Colosimo

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Article in La Radiologia medica, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Rosalinda CalandrelliDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, UOC Neuroradiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy. rosalinda.calandrelli@policlinicogemelli.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4517-3477
Luca BoldriniDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Huong Elena TranDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Vincenzo QuinciDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, UOC Neuroradiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Luca MassimiPediatric Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Largo A. Gemelli, 1, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Fabio PilatoUnit of Neurology, Neurophysiology, Neurobiology, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Jacopo LenkowiczDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Claudio VottaDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Cesare ColosimoDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy, and Hematology, UOC Neuroradiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITUniversità Campus Bio-Medico · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo investigate the potentialities of radiomic analysis and develop radiomic models to predict the skull dysmorphology severity and post-surgical outcome in children with isolated sagittal synostosis (ISS). MATERIALS AND

methodsPreoperative high-resolution CT scans of infants with ISS treated with surgical correction were retrospectively reviewed. The sagittal suture (ROI_entire) and its sections (ROI_anterior/central/posterior) were segmented. Radiomic features extracted from ROI_entire were correlated to the scaphocephalic severity, while radiomic features extracted from ROI_anterior/central/posterior were correlated to the post-surgical outcome. Logistic regression models were built from selected radiomic features and validated to predict the scaphocephalic severity and post-surgical outcome.

resultsA total of 105 patients were enrolled in this study. The kurtosis was obtained from the feature selection process for both scaphocephalic severity and post-surgical outcome prediction. The model predicting the scaphocephalic severity had an area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic of 0.71 and a positive predictive value of 0.83 for the testing set. The model built for the post-surgical outcome showed an AUC (95% CI) of 0.75 (0.61;0.88) and a negative predictive value (95% CI) of 0.95 (0.84;0.99).

conclusionOur results suggest that radiomics could be useful in quantifying tissue microarchitecture along the mid-suture space and potentially provide relevant biological information about the sutural ossification processes to predict the onset of skull deformities and stratify post-surgical outcome.

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CraniosynostosesChildHumansInfantRetrospective StudiesSkullTomography, X-Ray ComputedTreatment OutcomeHigh-resolution CTPredictive modelRadiomicsSagittal synostosisScaphocephalic severity

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