| Title: |
Stability of Multi-Parametric Prostate MRI Radiomic Features to Variations in Segmentation. |
| Authors: |
Thulasi Seetha, Sithin, Garanzini, Enrico, Tenconi, Chiara, Marenghi, Cristina, Avuzzi, Barbara, Catanzaro, Mario, Stagni, Silvia, Villa, Sergio, Chiorda, Barbara Noris, Badenchini, Fabio, Bertocchi, Elena, Sanduleanu, Sebastian, Pignoli, Emanuele, Procopio, Giuseppe, Valdagni, Riccardo, Rancati, Tiziana, Nicolai, Nicola, Messina, Antonella |
| Source: |
Journal of Personalized Medicine; Jul2023, Vol. 13 Issue 7, p1172, 22p |
| Subject Terms: |
FEATURE extraction, MAGNETIC resonance imaging, PROSTATE |
| Abstract: |
Stability analysis remains a fundamental step in developing a successful imaging biomarker to personalize oncological strategies. This study proposes an in silico contour generation method for simulating segmentation variations to identify stable radiomic features. Ground-truth annotation provided for the whole prostate gland on the multi-parametric MRI sequences (T2w, ADC, and SUB-DCE) were perturbed to mimic segmentation differences observed among human annotators. In total, we generated 15 synthetic contours for a given image-segmentation pair. One thousand two hundred twenty-four unfiltered/filtered radiomic features were extracted applying Pyradiomics, followed by stability assessment using ICC(1,1). Stable features identified in the internal population were then compared with an external population to discover and report robust features. Finally, we also investigated the impact of a wide range of filtering strategies on the stability of features. The percentage of unfiltered (filtered) features that remained robust subjected to segmentation variations were T2w—36% (81%), ADC—36% (94%), and SUB—43% (93%). Our findings suggest that segmentation variations can significantly impact radiomic feature stability but can be mitigated by including pre-filtering strategies as part of the feature extraction pipeline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Complementary Index |
