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Impact of Voxel Anisotropy On Statistic Texture Features of Oncologic PET: A Simulation Study
F Yang*, D Byrd , S Bowen , P Kinahan , G Sandison , University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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TU-G-CAMPUS-J-9 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015) 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall
Purpose: Texture metrics extracted from oncologic PET have been investigated with respect to their usefulness as definitive indicants for prognosis in a variety of cancer. Metric calculation is often based on cubic voxels. Most commonly used PET scanners, however, produce rectangular voxels, which may change texture metrics. The objective of this study was to examine the variability of PET texture feature metrics resulting from voxel anisotropy.
Methods: Sinograms of NEMA NU-2 phantom for 18F-FDG were simulated using the ASIM simulation tool. The obtained projection data was reconstructed (3D-OSEM) on grids of cubic and rectangular voxels, producing PET images of resolution of 2.73x2.73x3.27mm3 and 3.27x3.27x3.27mm3, respectively. An interpolated dataset obtained from resampling the rectangular voxel data for isotropic voxel dimension (3.27mm) was also considered. For each image dataset, 28 texture parameters based on grey-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCOM), intensity histograms (GLIH), neighborhood difference matrices (GLNDM), and zone size matrices (GLZSM) were evaluated within lesions of diameter of 33, 28, 22, and 17mm.
Results: In reference to the isotopic image data, texture features appearing on the rectangular voxel data varied with a range of -34-10% for GLCOM based, -31-39% for GLIH based, -80-161% for GLNDM based, and -6-45% for GLZSM based while varied with a range of -35-23% for GLCOM based, -27-35% for GLIH based, -65-86% for GLNDM based, and -22-18% for GLZSM based for the interpolated image data. For the anisotropic data, GLNDM_cplx exhibited the largest extent of variation (161%) while GLZSM_zp showed the least (<1%). As to the interpolated data, GLNDM_busy varied the most (86%) while GLIH_engy varied the least (<1%).
Conclusion: Variability of texture appearance on oncologic PET with respect to voxel representation is substantial and feature-dependent. It necessitates consideration of standardized voxel representation for inter-institution studies attempting to validate prognostic values of PET texture features in cancer treatment.
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