High spatiotemporal resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI improves the image-based discrimination of histopathology risk groups of peripheral zone prostate cancer: a supervised machine learning approach

Autor: Tobias Heye, Hanns-Christian Breit, David J. Winkel, Tobias K. Block, Daniel T. Boll
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: European Radiology. 30:4828-4837
ISSN: 1432-1084
0938-7994
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-020-06849-y
Popis: To assess if adding perfusion information from dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE MRI) acquisition schemes with high spatiotemporal resolution to T2w/DWI sequences as input features for a gradient boosting machine (GBM) machine learning (ML) classifier could better classify prostate cancer (PCa) risk groups than T2w/DWI sequences alone. One hundred ninety patients (68 ± 9 years) were retrospectively evaluated at 3T MRI for clinical suspicion of PCa. Included were 201 peripheral zone (PZ) PCa lesions. Histopathological confirmation on fusion biopsy was matched with normal prostate parenchyma contralaterally. Biopsy results were grouped into benign tissue and low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups (Gleason sum score 6, 7, and > 7, respectively). DCE MRI was performed using golden-angle radial sparse MRI. Perfusion maps (Ktrans, Kep, Ve), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), and absolute T2w signal intensity were determined and used as input features for building two ML models: GBM with/without perfusion maps. Areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) values for correlated models were compared. For the classification of benign vs. malignant and intermediate- vs. high-grade PCa, perfusion information added relevant information (AUC values 1 vs. 0.953 and 0.909 vs. 0.700, p
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