To assess the performance of CT-based radiomics analysis in differentiating benign from malignant intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas (IPMN), preoperative scans of 408 resected patients with IPMN were retrospectively analyzed. IPMNs were classified as benign (low-grade dysplasia, n = 181), or malignant (high grade, n = 128, and invasive, n = 99). Clinicobiological data were reported. Patients were divided into a training cohort (TC) of 296 patients and an external validation cohort (EVC) of 112 patients. After semi-automatic tumor segmentation, PyRadiomics was used to extract radiomics features. A multivariate model was developed using a logistic regression approach. In the training cohort, 85/107 radiomics features were significantly different between patients with benign and malignant IPMNs. Unsupervised clustering analysis revealed four distinct clusters of patients with similar radiomics features patterns with malignancy as the most significant association. The multivariate model differentiated benign from malignant tumors in TC with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.84, sensitivity (Se) of 0.82, specificity (Spe) of 0.74, and in EVC with an AUC of 0.71, Se of 0.69, Spe of 0.57. This large study confirms the high diagnostic performance of preoperative CT-based radiomics analysis to differentiate between benign from malignant IPMNs.
To investigate the repeatability and reproducibility of radiomic features extracted from MR images and provide a workflow to identify robust features. Methods: T 2-weighted images of a pelvic phantom were acquired on three scanners of two manufacturers and two magnetic field strengths. The repeatability and reproducibility of features were assessed by the intraclass correlation coefficient and the concordance correlation coefficient, respectively, and by the within-subject coefficient of variation, considering repeated acquisitions with and without phantom repositioning, and with different scanner and acquisition parameters. The features showing intraclass correlation coefficient or concordance correlation coefficient >0.9 were selected, and their dependence on shape information (Spearman's ρ > 0.8) analyzed. They were classified for their ability to distinguish textures, after shuffling voxel intensities of images. Results: From 944 two-dimensional features, 79.9% to 96.4% showed excellent repeatability in fixed position across all scanners. A much lower range (11.2% to 85.4%) was obtained after phantom repositioning. Three-dimensional extraction did not improve repeatability performance. Excellent reproducibility between scanners was observed in 4.6% to 15.6% of the features, at fixed imaging parameters. In addition, 82.4% to 94.9% of the features showed excellent agreement when extracted from images acquired with echo times 5 ms apart, but decreased with increasing 1714 | BIANCHINI et Al.
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