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Evaluation of prognostic models developed using standardised image features from different PET automated segmentation methods

Parkinson, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3454-4957, Foley, Kieran, Whybra, Philip, Hills, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0166-0062, Roberts, Ashley, Marshall, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-883X, Staffurth, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7834-3172 and Spezi, Emiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1452-8813 2018. Evaluation of prognostic models developed using standardised image features from different PET automated segmentation methods. EJNMMI Research 8 , 29. 10.1186/s13550-018-0379-3

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Abstract

Background Prognosis in oesophageal cancer (OC) is poor. The 5-year overall survival (OS) rate is approximately 15%. Personalised medicine is hoped to increase the 5- and 10-year OS rates. Quantitative analysis of PET is gaining substantial interest in prognostic research but requires the accurate definition of the metabolic tumour volume. This study compares prognostic models developed in the same patient cohort using individual PET segmentation algorithms and assesses the impact on patient risk stratification. Consecutive patients (n = 427) with biopsy-proven OC were included in final analysis. All patients were staged with PET/CT between September 2010 and July 2016. Nine automatic PET segmentation methods were studied. All tumour contours were subjectively analysed for accuracy, and segmentation methods with < 90% accuracy were excluded. Standardised image features were calculated, and a series of prognostic models were developed using identical clinical data. The proportion of patients changing risk classification group were calculated. Results Out of nine PET segmentation methods studied, clustering means (KM2), general clustering means (GCM3), adaptive thresholding (AT) and watershed thresholding (WT) methods were included for analysis. Known clinical prognostic factors (age, treatment and staging) were significant in all of the developed prognostic models. AT and KM2 segmentation methods developed identical prognostic models. Patient risk stratification was dependent on the segmentation method used to develop the prognostic model with up to 73 patients (17.1%) changing risk stratification group. Conclusion Prognostic models incorporating quantitative image features are dependent on the method used to delineate the primary tumour. This has a subsequent effect on risk stratification, with patients changing groups depending on the image segmentation method used.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Engineering
Medicine
Additional Information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Publisher: SpringerOpen / BMC
ISSN: 2191-219X
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 23 March 2018
Date of Acceptance: 23 March 2018
Last Modified: 12 May 2023 07:55
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110142

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