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Assessing robustness of carotid artery CT angiography radiomics in the identification of culprit lesions in cerebrovascular events

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Authors

Le, Elizabeth P. V. 
Rundo, Leonardo 
Tarkin, Jason M. 
Evans, Nicholas R. 
Chowdhury, Mohammed M. 

Abstract

Abstract: Radiomics, quantitative feature extraction from radiological images, can improve disease diagnosis and prognostication. However, radiomic features are susceptible to image acquisition and segmentation variability. Ideally, only features robust to these variations would be incorporated into predictive models, for good generalisability. We extracted 93 radiomic features from carotid artery computed tomography angiograms of 41 patients with cerebrovascular events. We tested feature robustness to region-of-interest perturbations, image pre-processing settings and quantisation methods using both single- and multi-slice approaches. We assessed the ability of the most robust features to identify culprit and non-culprit arteries using several machine learning algorithms and report the average area under the curve (AUC) from five-fold cross validation. Multi-slice features were superior to single for producing robust radiomic features (67 vs. 61). The optimal image quantisation method used bin widths of 25 or 30. Incorporating our top 10 non-redundant robust radiomics features into ElasticNet achieved an AUC of 0.73 and accuracy of 69% (compared to carotid calcification alone [AUC: 0.44, accuracy: 46%]). Our results provide key information for introducing carotid CT radiomics into clinical practice. If validated prospectively, our robust carotid radiomic set could improve stroke prediction and target therapies to those at highest risk.

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Funder: School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007552


Funder: Frank Edward Elmore Fund


Funder: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre


Funder: British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence


Funder: Royal College of Surgeons of England; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000297


Funder: Cancer Research UK; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000289


Funder: AstraZeneca Oncology R


Funder: National Institute for Health Research; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272


Funder: Leverhulme Trust; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275


Funder: Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information


Funder: Alan Turing Institute; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012338


Funder: NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre


Funder: Higher Education Funding Council for England; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000384

Keywords

Article, /692/308, /692/700/1421, /692/4019/592/75/593/2100, /692/699/75/593/1353, article

Journal Title

Scientific Reports

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Journal ISSN

2045-2322

Volume Title

11

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group UK
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (1966157)
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Centre (C9685/A25177, C9685/A25177)
Wellcome Trust (211100/Z/18/Z)
The Dunhill Medical Trust (RTF44/0114)
British Heart Foundation (FS/16/29/31957)
EPSRC (EP/S026045/1 and EP/T003553/1, EP/N014588/1)
Wellcome Innovator Award (RG98755)
Horizon 2020 (No. 777826 NoMADS and No. 691070 CHiPS)