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Development of a Multiparametric Statistical Response Map for Quantitative Imaging
R Bosca1,2*, A Mahajan2 , VE Johnson3 , PD Brown2 , L Dong4 , RJ Stafford2 , EF Jackson5 , (1) The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, (2) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, (3) Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (4) Scripps Proton Therapy Center, San Diego, CA, (5) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Presentations
TU-C-12A-2 Tuesday 10:15AM - 12:15PM Room: 12APurpose:
Quantitative imaging biomarkers (QIB) are becoming increasingly utilized in early phase clinical trials as a means of non-invasively assessing treatment response and associated response heterogeneity. The aim of this study was to develop a flexible multiparametric statistical framework to predict voxel-by-voxel response of several potential MRI QIBs.
Methods:
Patients with histologically proven glioblastomas (n=11) were treated with chemoradiation (with/without bevacizumab) and underwent one baseline and two mid-treatment (3-4wks) MRIs. Dynamic contrast-enhanced (3D FSPGR, 6.3sec/phase, 0.1 mmol/kg Gd-DTPA), dynamic susceptibility contrast (2D GRE-EPI, 1.5sec/phase, 0.2mmol/kg Gd-DTPA), and diffusion tensor (2D DW-EPI, b=0, 1200 s/mm², 27 directions) imaging acquisitions were obtained during each study. Mid-treatment and pre-treatment images were rigidly aligned, and regions of partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), and progressive disease (PD) were contoured in consensus by two experienced radiation oncologists. Voxels in these categories were used to train ordinal (PR
Results:
Ordinal regression resulted in model prediction accuracies of 60% (PR), 0% (SD), 81% (PD), and 69% (overall), with coefficients of variation (COV) of 9.4%, 9.6%, and 23.6%, respectively. Logistic regression resulted in accuracies of 82.0% (PR/SD), 46.2% (PD), and 76.2% (overall) with COVs of 22.4%, 45.7%, and 23.8%, respectively.
Conclusion:
Despite limited patient numbers, this feasibility pilot study demonstrates that ordinal and logistic regression models potentially provide a flexible statistical framework for incorporating longitudinal multiparametric quantitative imaging data and, for these particular data, can potentially distinguish PR from PD. Additional training data exhibiting a full range of treatment responses is expected to allow prediction of all three treatment outcomes. Moreover, these models are extensible to multi-modality, multiparametric analyses.
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