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ArticleThe American journal of gastroenterology2026

Development of a Computed Tomography Enterography-Based Radiomics Model to Characterize Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Smooth Muscle Thickening in Stricturing Crohn's Disease.

Joseph Sleiman, V Gargi Pillai, Prathyush Chirra, Namita S Gandhi, Ilyssa O Gordon, Mohsen Hariri, Mark E Baker, Justin Ream, Clifton Fulmer, Sarah El Ouali and 5 more

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15 authors.

Joseph SleimanDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Digestive Diseases and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7390-5949
V Gargi PillaiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1868-416
Prathyush ChirraDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4589-5744
Namita S GandhiSection of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Department, Enterprise Diagnostic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6456-9453
Ilyssa O GordonRobert J. Tomsich Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Anatomic Pathology, Diagnostics Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1893-7200
Mohsen HaririDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0731-4275
Mark E BakerSection of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Department, Enterprise Diagnostic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5023-3361
Justin ReamSection of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Department, Enterprise Diagnostic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1223-9054
Clifton FulmerRobert J. Tomsich Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Anatomic Pathology, Diagnostics Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1453-9421
Sarah El OualiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE.ORCID 0000-0001-6153-1081
David H BruiningDivision of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Jacob A KurowskiDivision of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4333-8998
Florian RiederDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Digestive Diseases and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Satish E ViswanathDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4550-8337
Stenosis Therapy and Anti-Fibrotic Research (STAR) Consortium

Funding

Septins in intestinal fibrosisR01DK132038 · NIDDK · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, Florian Rieder · 2023 to 2026
$2.5M
Creeping fat and Crohn's disease associated stricturesR01DK123233 · NIDDK · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI RIEDER, FLORIAN · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
Novel radiomic signatures for treatment response to neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancersR01CA280981 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI ANDREI SARAIVA PURYSKO, Emily Steinhagen · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Radiomics-based Risk Prediction for Therapy Selection in Crohn’s Disease via MRIF31DK130587 · NIDDK · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI CHIRRA, PRATHYUSH V · 2022 to 2022
$35k
BLRD VA I01 BX006439NCI NIH HHS 1R01CA280981-01A1NCI NIH HHS R01 CA280981NIDDK NIH HHS 1F31DK130587-01A1NIDDK NIH HHS 1R01DK123233-01A1NIDDK NIH HHS 1R01DK132038-01A1NIDDK NIH HHS F31 DK130587NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK123233NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK132038the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program W81XWH-21-1-0725Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service Merit Award 1I01BX006439-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionComputed tomography enterography (CTE) is a noninvasive cross-sectional imaging modality routinely used for diagnosis of Crohn's disease (CD) strictures. However, CTE is limited in individually defining the severity of inflammation, fibrosis, or smooth muscle hyperplasia/hypertrophy (SMH) within such strictures. We developed and internally validated a radiomics-based machine learning model for separately characterizing the degree of histopathological inflammation, fibrosis, and SMH in CD strictures and compared it with centrally read visual radiologist scoring of CTE.

methodsThis single-center, cross-sectional study included 100 patients with CD (n = 66 for discovery; n = 34 for validation) with terminal ileal strictures confirmed on diagnostic CTE within 15 weeks of intestinal resection. Histopathological specimens were scored for inflammation, fibrosis, and SMH and spatially linked with corresponding pre-surgical CTE sequences. Annotated stricture regions on CTE were scored visually by radiologists as well as underwent three-dimensional radiomics-based machine-learning analysis; both evaluated against histopathology scoring.

resultsThree distinct sets of radiomic features capturing textural heterogeneity within strictures were separately linked with severe inflammation, fibrosis, and SMH across both discovery (accuracy = 0.74, 0.71, 0.71, respectively) and validation (accuracy = 0.74, 0.68, 0.68, respectively) cohorts. Radiologist visual scoring was limited, with accuracy of 0.51 for identifying severe inflammation, 0.48 for severe fibrosis, and 0.58 for severe SMH. Augmenting radiologist scoring with radiomic features yielded improved performance in identifying severe inflammation, fibrosis, or SMH compared to radiologist scoring alone. DISCUSSION: Radiomic features of CD strictures on CTE can identify severe histopathological fibrosis, inflammation, and smooth muscle hyperplasia and perform better than radiologist visual scoring in stricture characterization.

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PMID42262346
PMCPMC13519600

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