Primary Rectal Cancer: Repeatability of Global and Local-Regional MR Imaging Texture Features.
Radiology
; 284(2): 552-561, 2017 08.
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Purpose To assess the day-to-day repeatability of global and local-regional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging texture features derived from primary rectal cancer. Materials and Methods After ethical approval and patient informed consent were obtained, two pretreatment T2-weighted axial MR imaging studies performed prospectively with the same imaging unit on 2 consecutive days in 14 patients with rectal cancer (11 men [mean age, 61.7 years], three women [mean age, 70.0 years]) were analyzed to extract (a) global first-order statistical histogram and model-based fractal features reflecting the whole-tumor voxel intensity histogram distribution and repeating patterns, respectively, without spatial information and (b) local-regional second-order and high-order statistical texture features reflecting the intensity and spatial interrelationships between adjacent in-plane or multiplanar voxels or regions, respectively. Repeatability was assessed for 46 texture features, and mean difference, 95% limits of agreement, within-subject coefficient of variation (wCV), and repeatability coefficient (r) were recorded. Results Repeatability was better for global parameters than for most local-regional parameters. In particular, histogram mean, median, and entropy, fractal dimension mean and standard deviation, and second-order entropy, homogeneity, difference entropy, and inverse difference moment demonstrated good repeatability, with narrow limits of agreement and wCVs of 10% or lower. Repeatability was poorest for the following high-order gray-level run-length (GLRL) gray-level zone size matrix (GLZSM) and neighborhood gray-tone difference matrix (NGTDM) parameters: GLRL intensity variability, GLZSM short-zone emphasis, GLZSM intensity nonuniformity, GLZSM intensity variability, GLZSM size zone variability, and NGTDM complexity, demonstrating wider agreement limits and wCVs of 50% or greater. Conclusion MR imaging repeatability is better for global texture parameters than for local-regional texture parameters, indicating that global texture parameters should be sufficiently robust for clinical practice. Online supplemental material is available for this article.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias del Recto
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Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Ethics
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
Revista:
Radiology
Año:
2017
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Article
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos