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ArticleCancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society2022

Identifying factors that may influence the classification performance of radiomics models using contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) images.

Yuqi Sun, Simin Wang, Ziang Liu, Chao You, Ruimin Li, Ning Mao, Shaofeng Duan, Henry S Lynn, Yajia Gu

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Article in Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society, 2022. 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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9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Yuqi Sun *Department of Biostatistics, Key Laboratory on Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Simin Wang *Department of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Ziang LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Chao YouDepartment of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Ruimin LiDepartment of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Ning MaoDepartment of Radiology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Shandong, 264000, China.
Shaofeng DuanGE Healthcare China, No. 1 Huatuo Road, Shanghai, 210000, China.
Henry S LynnDepartment of Biostatistics, Key Laboratory on Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China. hslynn@shmu.edu.cn.
Yajia GuDepartment of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, 200032, China. guyajia@126.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5831-5214
Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University · CNFudan University · CNQingdao University · CNYale University · US

Funding

Clinical Research Plan of SHDC SHDC2020CR2008ANational Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC 82071878Shanghai Anticancer Association FLIGHT PROJECT SACA-AX-201903Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation 19DZ1930502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRadiomics plays an important role in the field of oncology. Few studies have focused on the identification of factors that may influence the classification performance of radiomics models. The goal of this study was to use contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) images to identify factors that may potentially influence the performance of radiomics models in diagnosing breast lesions.

methodsA total of 157 women with 161 breast lesions were included. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression and the random forest (RF) algorithm were employed to construct radiomics models. The classification result for each lesion was obtained by using 100 rounds of five-fold cross-validation. The image features interpreted by the radiologists were used in the exploratory factor analyses. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine the association between the image features and misclassification. Additional exploratory analyses were performed to examine the findings.

resultsAmong the lesions misclassified by both LASSO and RF ≥ 20% of the iterations in the cross-validation and those misclassified by both algorithms ≤5% of the iterations, univariate analysis showed that larger lesion size and the presence of rim artifacts and/or ripple artifacts were associated with more misclassifications among benign lesions, and smaller lesion size was associated with more misclassifications among malignant lesions (all p <  0.050). Multivariate analysis showed that smaller lesion size (odds ratio [OR] = 0.699, p = 0.002) and the presence of air trapping artifacts (OR = 35.568, p = 0.025) were factors that may lead to misclassification among malignant lesions. Additional exploratory analyses showed that benign lesions with rim artifacts and small malignant lesions (< 20 mm) with air trapping artifacts were misclassified by approximately 50% more in rate compared with benign and malignant lesions without these factors.

conclusionsLesion size and artifacts in CEM images may affect the diagnostic performance of radiomics models. The classification results for lesions presenting with certain factors may be less reliable.

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AlgorithmsMammographyFemaleHumansRadiologistsRetrospective StudiesArtifactBreast CancerMammographyRadiomics

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