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  • Shinohara, Russell T.  (4)
  • Singh, Apurva  (4)
  • 1
    In: Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-12-13)
    Abstract: Our study investigates the effects of heterogeneity in image parameters on the reproducibility of prognostic performance of models built using radiomic biomarkers. We compare the prognostic performance of models derived from the heterogeneity-mitigated features with that of models obtained from raw features, to assess whether reproducibility of prognostic scores improves upon application of our methods. We used two datasets: The Breast I-SPY1 dataset—Baseline DCE-MRI scans of 156 women with locally advanced breast cancer, treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, publicly available via The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA); The NSCLC IO dataset—Baseline CT scans of 107 patients with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), treated with pembrolizumab immunotherapy at our institution. Radiomic features (n = 102) are extracted from the tumor ROIs. We use a variety of resampling and harmonization scenarios to mitigate the heterogeneity in image parameters. The patients were divided into groups based on batch variables. For each group, the radiomic phenotypes are combined with the clinical covariates into a prognostic model. The performance of the groups is assessed using the c-statistic, derived from a Cox proportional hazards model fitted on all patients within a group. The heterogeneity-mitigation scenario (radiomic features, derived from images that have been resampled to minimum voxel spacing, are harmonized using the image acquisition parameters as batch variables) gave models with highest prognostic scores (for e.g., IO dataset; batch variable: high kernel resolution—c-score: 0.66). The prognostic performance of patient groups is not comparable in case of models built using non-heterogeneity mitigated features (for e.g., I-SPY1 dataset; batch variable: small pixel spacing—c-score: 0.54, large pixel spacing—c-score: 0.65). The prognostic performance of patient groups is closer in case of heterogeneity-mitigated scenarios (for e.g., scenario—harmonize by voxel spacing parameters: IO dataset; thin slice—c-score: 0.62, thick slice—c-score: 0.60). Our results indicate that accounting for heterogeneity in image parameters is important to obtain more reproducible prognostic scores, irrespective of image site or modality. For non-heterogeneity mitigated models, the prognostic scores are not comparable across patient groups divided based on batch variables. This study can be a step in the direction of constructing reproducible radiomic biomarkers, thus increasing their application in clinical decision making.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2045-2322
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In:  Scientific Reports Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-11-08)
    In: Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-11-08)
    Abstract: Radiomic approaches in precision medicine are promising, but variation associated with image acquisition factors can result in severe biases and low generalizability. Multicenter datasets used in these studies are often heterogeneous in multiple imaging parameters and/or have missing information, resulting in multimodal radiomic feature distributions. ComBat is a promising harmonization tool, but it only harmonizes by single/known variables and assumes standardized input data are normally distributed. We propose a procedure that sequentially harmonizes for multiple batch effects in an optimized order, called OPNested ComBat. Furthermore, we propose to address bimodality by employing a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) grouping considered as either a batch variable (OPNested + GMM) or as a protected clinical covariate (OPNested − GMM). Methods were evaluated on features extracted with CapTK and PyRadiomics from two public lung computed tomography (CT) datasets. We found that OPNested ComBat improved harmonization performance over standard ComBat. OPNested + GMM ComBat exhibited the best harmonization performance but the lowest predictive performance, while OPNested − GMM ComBat showed poorer harmonization performance, but the highest predictive performance. Our findings emphasize that improved harmonization performance is no guarantee of improved predictive performance, and that these methods show promise for superior standardization of datasets heterogeneous in multiple or unknown imaging parameters and greater generalizability.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2045-2322
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In: Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-03-16)
    Abstract: Radiomic features have a wide range of clinical applications, but variability due to image acquisition factors can affect their performance. The harmonization tool ComBat is a promising solution but is limited by inability to harmonize multimodal distributions, unknown imaging parameters, and multiple imaging parameters. In this study, we propose two methods for addressing these limitations. We propose a sequential method that allows for harmonization of radiomic features by multiple imaging parameters (Nested ComBat). We also employ a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based method (GMM ComBat) where scans are split into groupings based on the shape of the distribution used for harmonization as a batch effect and subsequent harmonization by a known imaging parameter. These two methods were evaluated on features extracted with CapTK and PyRadiomics from two public lung computed tomography datasets. We found that Nested ComBat exhibited similar performance to standard ComBat in reducing the percentage of features with statistically significant differences in distribution attributable to imaging parameters. GMM ComBat improved harmonization performance over standard ComBat (− 11%, − 10% for Lung3/CAPTK, Lung3/PyRadiomics harmonizing by kernel resolution). Features harmonized with a variant of the Nested method and the GMM split method demonstrated similar c-statistics and Kaplan–Meier curves when used in survival analyses.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2045-2322
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In: Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-06-15)
    Abstract: We aim to determine the feasibility of a novel radiomic biomarker that can integrate with other established clinical prognostic factors to predict progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergoing first-line immunotherapy. Our study includes 107 patients with stage 4 NSCLC treated with pembrolizumab-based therapy (monotherapy: 30%, combination chemotherapy: 70%). The ITK-SNAP software was used for 3D tumor volume segmentation from pre-therapy CT scans. Radiomic features (n = 102) were extracted using the CaPTk software. Impact of heterogeneity introduced by image physical dimensions (voxel spacing parameters) and acquisition parameters (contrast enhancement and CT reconstruction kernel) was mitigated by resampling the images to the minimum voxel spacing parameters and harmonization by a nested ComBat technique. This technique was initialized with radiomic features, clinical factors of age, sex, race, PD-L1 expression, ECOG status, body mass index (BMI), smoking status, recurrence event and months of progression-free survival, and image acquisition parameters as batch variables. Two phenotypes were identified using unsupervised hierarchical clustering of harmonized features. Prognostic factors, including PDL1 expression, ECOG status, BMI and smoking status, were combined with radiomic phenotypes in Cox regression models of PFS and Kaplan Meier (KM) curve-fitting. Cox model based on clinical factors had a c-statistic of 0.57, which increased to 0.63 upon addition of phenotypes derived from harmonized features. There were statistically significant differences in survival outcomes stratified by clinical covariates, as measured by the log-rank test ( p  = 0.034), which improved upon addition of phenotypes ( p  = 0.00022). We found that mitigation of heterogeneity by image resampling and nested ComBat harmonization improves prognostic value of phenotypes, resulting in better prediction of PFS when added to other prognostic variables.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2045-2322
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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