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A Neural Network Approach to Identify the Peritumoral Invasive Areas in Glioblastoma Patients by Using MR Radiomics.

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Yan, Jiun-Lin 
van der Hoorn, Anouk 
Boonzaier, Natalie R 

Abstract

The challenge in the treatment of glioblastoma is the failure to identify the cancer invasive area outside the contrast-enhancing tumour which leads to the high local progression rate. Our study aims to identify its progression from the preoperative MR radiomics. 57 newly diagnosed cerebral glioblastoma patients were included. All patients received 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence guidance surgery and postoperative temozolomide concomitant chemoradiotherapy. Preoperative 3 T MRI data including structure MR, perfusion MR, and DTI were obtained. Voxel-based radiomics features extracted from 37 patients were used in the convolutional neural network to train and as internal validation. Another 20 patients of the cohort were tested blindly as external validation. Our results showed that the peritumoural progression areas had higher signal intensity in FLAIR (p = 0.02), rCBV (p = 0.038), and T1C (p = 0.0004), and lower intensity in ADC (p = 0.029) and DTI-p (p = 0.001) compared to non-progression area. The identification of the peritumoural progression area was done by using a supervised convolutional neural network. There was an overall accuracy of 92.6% in the training set and 78.5% in the validation set. Multimodal MR radiomics can demonstrate distinct characteristics in areas of potential progression on preoperative MRI.

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Adult, Aged, Aminolevulinic Acid, Brain Neoplasms, Cohort Studies, Contrast Media, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Disease Progression, Female, Glioblastoma, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Male, Middle Aged, Neural Networks, Computer, Optical Imaging, Retrospective Studies

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2045-2322
2045-2322

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10

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Cancer Research UK (19732)
Department of Health (via National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)) (CDF-2018-11-ST2-003)