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ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2023

Deep learning-based overall survival prediction model in patients with rare cancer: a case study for primary central nervous system lymphoma.

Ziyu She, Aldo Marzullo, Michela Destito, Maria Francesca Spadea, Riccardo Leone, Nicoletta Anzalone, Sara Steffanoni, Federico Erbella, Andrés J M Ferreri, Giancarlo Ferrigno and 2 more

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Article in International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Ziyu SheDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. ziyu.she@polimi.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-6941
Aldo MarzulloDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
Michela DestitoDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Maria Francesca SpadeaDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Riccardo LeoneNeuroradiology Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Nicoletta AnzaloneNeuroradiology Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Sara SteffanoniLymphoma Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Federico ErbellaLymphoma Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Andrés J M FerreriLymphoma Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Giancarlo FerrignoDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Teresa CalimeriLymphoma Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Elena De MomiDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITPolitecnico di Milano · ITMagna Graecia University · ITVita-Salute San Raffaele University · ITUniversity of Calabria · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposePrimary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare, aggressive form of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. To predict the overall survival (OS) in advance is of utmost importance as it has the potential to aid clinical decision-making. Though radiomics-based machine learning (ML) has demonstrated the promising performance in PCNSL, it demands large amounts of manual feature extraction efforts from magnetic resonance images beforehand. deep learning (DL) overcomes this limitation.

methodsIn this paper, we tailored the 3D ResNet to predict the OS of patients with PCNSL. To overcome the limitation of data sparsity, we introduced data augmentation and transfer learning, and we evaluated the results using r stratified k-fold cross-validation. To explain the results of our model, gradient-weighted class activation mapping was applied.

resultsWe obtained the best performance (the standard error) on post-contrast T1-weighted (T1Gd)-area under curve [Formula: see text], accuracy [Formula: see text], precision [Formula: see text], recall [Formula: see text] and F1-score [Formula: see text], while compared with ML-based models on clinical data and radiomics data, respectively, further confirming the stability of our model. Also, we observed that PCNSL is a whole-brain disease and in the cases where the OS is less than 1 year, it is more difficult to distinguish the tumor boundary from the normal part of the brain, which is consistent with the clinical outcome.

conclusionsAll these findings indicate that T1Gd can improve prognosis predictions of patients with PCNSL. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to use DL to explain model patterns in OS classification of patients with PCNSL. Future work would involve collecting more data of patients with PCNSL, or additional retrospective studies on different patient populations with rare diseases, to further promote the clinical role of our model.

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Brain NeoplasmsCentral Nervous System NeoplasmsDeep LearningLymphomaCentral Nervous SystemHumansRetrospective StudiesDeep learningGrad-CAMModel explainabilityOS predictionPCNSL

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