PET textural features stability and pattern discrimination power for radiomics analysis: An 'ad-hoc' phantoms study
| Autor: | Valentino Bettinardi, Luca Presotto, Giovanni Mauro Cattaneo, M.L. Belli, Claudio Fiorino, Sara Broggi, E. De Bernardi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Presotto, L, Bettinardi, V, De Bernardi, E, Belli, M, Cattaneo, G, Broggi, S, Fiorino, C |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Discretization
Biophysics General Physics and Astronomy Stability (probability) Pattern Recognition Automated 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Image Processing Computer-Assisted Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Fraction (mathematics) Categorical variable Mathematics Phantoms Imaging business.industry Pattern recognition Reconstruction algorithm General Medicine Explained variation Power (physics) PET Radiomics Image analysis Noise Positron-Emission Tomography 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Artificial intelligence business Software |
| Popis: | Purpose: The analysis of PET images by textural features, also known as radiomics, shows promising results in tumor characterization. However, radiomic metrics (RMs) analysis is currently not standardized and the impact of the whole processing chain still needs deep investigation. We characterized the impact on RM values of: i) two discretization methods, ii) acquisition statistics, and iii) reconstruction algorithm. The influence of tumor volume and standardized-uptake-value (SUV) on RM was also investigated. Methods: The Chang-Gung-Image-Texture-Analysis (CGITA) software was used to calculate 39 RMs using phantom data. Thirty noise realizations were acquired to measure statistical effect size indicators for each RM. The parameter η2 (fraction of variance explained by the nuisance factor) was used to assess the effect of categorical variables, considering η2 < 20% and 20% < η2 < 40% as representative of a “negligible” and a “small” dependence respectively. The Cohen's d was used as discriminatory power to quantify the separation of two distributions. Results: We found the discretization method based on fixed-bin-number (FBN) to outperform the one based on fixed-bin-size in units of SUV (FBS), as the latter shows a higher SUV dependence, with 30 RMs showing η2 > 20%. FBN was also less influenced by the acquisition and reconstruction setup: with FBN 37 RMs had η2 < 40%, only 20 with FBS. Most RMs showed a good discriminatory power among heterogeneous PET signals (for FBN: 29 out of 39 RMs with d > 3). Conclusions: For RMs analysis, FBN should be preferred. A group of 21 RMs was suggested for PET radiomics analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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