Using a single abdominal computed tomography image to differentiate five contrast-enhancement phases: A machine-learning algorithm for radiomics-based precision medicine.
Eur J Radiol
; 125: 108850, 2020 Apr.
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PURPOSE: The clinical adoption of quantitative imaging biomarkers (radiomics) has established the need for high quality contrast-enhancement in medical images. We aimed to develop a machine-learning algorithm for Quality Control of Contrast-Enhancement on CT-scan (CECT-QC). METHOD: Multicenter data from four independent cohorts [A, B, C, D] of patients with measurable liver lesions were analyzed retrospectively (patients:time-points; 503:3397): [A] dynamic CTs from primary liver cancer (60:2359); [B] triphasic CTs from primary liver cancer (31:93); [C] triphasic CTs from hepatocellular carcinoma (121:363); [D] portal venous phase CTs of liver metastasis from colorectal cancer (291:582). Patients from cohort A were randomized to training-set (48:1884) and test-set (12:475). A random forest classifier was trained and tested to identify five contrast-enhancement phases. The input was the mean intensity of the abdominal aorta and the portal vein measured on a single abdominal CT scan image at a single time-point. The output to be predicted was: non-contrast [NCP], early-arterial [E-AP], optimal-arterial [O-AP], optimal-portal [O-PVP], and late-portal [L-PVP]. Clinical utility was assessed in cohorts B, C, and D. RESULTS: The CECT-QC algorithm showed performances of 98 %, 90 %, and 84 % for predicting NCP, O-AP, and O-PVP, respectively. O-PVP was reached in half of patients and was associated with a peak in liver malignancy density. Contrast-enhancement quality significantly influenced radiomics features deciphering the phenotype of liver neoplasms. CONCLUSIONS: A single CT-image can be used to differentiate five contrast-enhancement phases for radiomics-based precision medicine in the most common liver neoplasms occurring in patients with or without liver cirrhosis.
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Interpretación de Imagen Asistida por Computador
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Intensificación de Imagen Radiográfica
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Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular
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Medios de Contraste
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Neoplasias Hepáticas
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Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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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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Eur J Radiol
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2020
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Article
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Irlanda