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ArticleJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare2023

MRI-Based Texture Analysis for Preoperative Prediction of BRAF V600E Mutation in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.

Tingting Zheng, Wenjuan Hu, Hao Wang, Xiaoli Xie, Lang Tang, Weiyan Liu, Pu-Yeh Wu, Jingjing Xu, Bin Song

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Article in Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Radiomics in thyroid nodule assessment.BMC medical imaging · 2026
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  3. Breaking barriers: noninvasive AI model for BRAFInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tingting Zheng *Department of Radiology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-4726-759X
Wenjuan Hu *Department of Radiology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-6208-7258
Hao WangDepartment of Radiology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-5438-1211
Xiaoli XieDepartment of Pathology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Lang TangDepartment of Ultrasound, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-1894-0343
Weiyan LiuDepartment of General Surgery, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-8086-4084
Pu-Yeh WuGE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Jingjing Xu *Department of Radiology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-0150-9004
Bin Song *Department of Radiology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-8493-2523
Fudan University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: BRAF V600E mutation can compensate for the low detection rate by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and is related to aggressiveness and lymph node metastasis. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between texture analysis features based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and mutations. Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed on patients with postoperative pathology confirmed papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) from 2017 to 2021. One thousand one hundred and thirty-two texture features were extracted from T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging (CE-T1WI) separately by outlining the tumor volume of interest (VOI). Univariate, minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR), and multivariate analyses were used for feature selection to construct 3 models (T2WI, CE-T1WI, and combined model) to predict mutation. The reproducibility between observers was evaluated by intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to assess the performance of models. The diagnostic performance of the optimal cut-off value of models were calculated and validated by 10-fold cross-validation. Results: A total of 80 PTCs (22 BRAF V600E wild-type and 58 BRAF V600E mutant) were included in our study. Good interobserver agreement was found on texture features we selected (all ICCs >0.75). The area under the ROC curves (AUCs) for the T2WI model, CE-T1WI model, and combined model were 0.83 (95% CI: 0.75-0.91), 0.83 (95% CI: 0.73-0.90), and 0.88 (95% CI: 0.81-0.94), respectively. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV were 0.776, 0.679, 0.905, 0.905, and 0.679 for the T2WI model at a cut-off value of 0.674; 0.755, 0.750, 0.762, 0.808, and 0.696 for the CE-T1WI model at a cut-off value of 0.573; 0.816, 0.893, 0.714, 0.806, and 0.833 for the combined model at a cut-off value of 0.420. Conclusion: MRI-based texture analysis could be a potential method for predicting BRAF V600E mutation in PTC preoperatively.

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BRAF V600Emagnetic resonance imagingpapillary thyroid carcinomaradiomicstexture analysis

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