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Prognostic Value of Intra-Radiation Treatment FDG-PET and CT Imaging Features in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
J Song1*, Y Cui2 , E Pollom1 , B Durkee1 , S Aggarwal1 , T Bui1 , Q Le1 , B Loo1 , W Hara1 , R Li1,2 , (1) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, (2) Hokkaido University, Global Institute for Collaborative Research and Educat, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Presentations
TU-AB-BRA-10 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015) 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room: Ballroom A
Purpose:
To predict response to radiation treatment using computational FDG-PET and CT images in locally advanced head and neck cancer (HNC).
Methods:
68 patients with State III-IVB HNC treated with chemoradiation were included in this retrospective study. For each patient, we analyzed primary tumor and lymph nodes on PET and CT scans acquired both prior to and during radiation treatment, which led to 8 combinations of image datasets. From each image set, we extracted high-throughput, radiomic features of the following types: statistical, morphological, textural, histogram, and wavelet, resulting in a total of 437 features. We then performed unsupervised redundancy removal and stability test on these features. To avoid over-fitting, we trained a logistic regression model with simultaneous feature selection based on least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO). To objectively evaluate the prediction ability, we performed 5-fold cross validation (CV) with 50 random repeats of stratified bootstrapping. Feature selection and model training was solely conducted on the training set and independently validated on the holdout test set. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of the pooled result and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was calculated as figure of merit.
Results:
For predicting local-regional recurrence, our model built on pre-treatment PET of lymph nodes achieved the best performance (AUC=0.762) on 5-fold CV, which compared favorably with node volume and SUVmax (AUC=0.704 and 0.449, p<0.001). Wavelet coefficients turned out to be the most predictive features. Prediction of distant recurrence showed a similar trend, in which pre-treatment PET features of lymph nodes had the highest AUC of 0.705.
Conclusion:
The radiomics approach identified novel imaging features that are predictive to radiation treatment response. If prospectively validated in larger cohorts, they could aid in risk-adaptive treatment of HNC.
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