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The predictive value of CT-based radiomics in differentiating indolent from invasive lung adenocarcinoma in patients with pulmonary nodules

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Abstract

Objectives

Adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) and minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) are assumed to be indolent lung adenocarcinoma with excellent prognosis. We aim to identify these lesions from invasive adenocarcinoma (IA) by a radiomics approach.

Methods

This retrospective study was approved by institutional review board with a waiver of informed consent. Pathologically confirmed lung adenocarcinomas manifested as lung nodules less than 3 cm were retrospectively identified. In-house software was used to quantitatively extract 60 CT-based radiomics features quantifying nodule’s volume, intensity and texture property through manual segmentation. In order to differentiate AIS/MIA from IA, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression was used for feature selection and developing radiomics signatures. The predictive performance of the signature was evaluated via receiver operating curve (ROC) and calibration curve, and validated using an independent cohort.

Results

402 eligible patients were included and divided into the primary cohort (n = 207) and the validation cohort (n = 195). Using the primary cohort, we developed a radiomics signature based on five radiomics features. The signature showed good discrimination between MIA/AIS and IA in both the primary and validation cohort, with AUCs of 0.95 (95% CI, 0.91–0.98) and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.84–0.93), respectively. Multivariate logistic analysis revealed that the signature (OR, 13.3; 95% CI, 6.2–28.5; p < 0.001) and gender (OR, 3.5; 95% CI, 1.2–10.9; p = 0.03) were independent predictors of indolent lung adenocarcinoma.

Conclusion

The signature based on radiomics features helps to differentiate indolent from invasive lung adenocarcinoma, which might be useful in guiding the intervention choice for patients with pulmonary nodules.

Key points

• Based on radiomics features, a signature is established to differentiate adenocarcinoma in situ and minimally invasive adenocarcinoma from invasive lung adenocarcinoma.

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Abbreviations

AIS:

Adenocarcinoma in situ

AUC:

Area under the curve

CT:

Computed tomography

IA:

Invasive adenocarcinoma

LASSO:

Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator

MIA:

Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma

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This study has received funding by Shanghai Hospital Development Center (16CR3116B).

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  1. Yunlang She and Lei Zhang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Zhengmin Road 507, Shanghai, 200433, People’s Republic of China

    Yunlang She, Lei Zhang, Huiyuan Zhu, Chenyang Dai, Dong Xie, Ke Fei & Chang Chen

  2. Department of Pathology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Huikang Xie & Wei Zhang

  3. Department of General Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Lilan Zhao

  4. Department of Medical Statistics, Tongji university School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Liling Zou

  5. Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Liling Zou

  6. Department of Radiology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Zhengmin Road 507, Shanghai, 200433, People’s Republic of China

    Xiwen Sun

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She, Y., Zhang, L., Zhu, H. et al. The predictive value of CT-based radiomics in differentiating indolent from invasive lung adenocarcinoma in patients with pulmonary nodules. Eur Radiol 28, 5121–5128 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-018-5509-9

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