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Meningioma consistency assessment based on the fusion of deep learning features and radiomics features
Jiatian Zhang1, Yajing Zhao2, Yiping Lu2
1School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, China; Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215163, China.
Purpose:
This study aims to combine deep learning features with radiomics features for the computer-assisted preoperative assessment of meningioma consistency.
Methods:
202 patients with surgery and pathological diagnosis of meningiomas at our institution between December 2016 and December 2018 were retrospectively included in the study. The T2-fluid attenuated inversion recovery (T2-Flair) images were evaluated to classify meningioma as soft or hard by professional neurosurgeons based on Zada's consistency grading system. All the patients were split randomly into a training cohort (n = 162) and a testing cohort (n = 40). A convolutional neural network (CNN) model was proposed to extract deep learning features. These deep learning features were combined with radiomics features. After multiple feature selections, selected features were used to construct classification models using four classifiers. AUC was used to evaluate the performance of each classifier. A signature was further constructed by using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO). A nomogram based on the signature was created for predicting meningioma consistency.
Results:
The logistic regression classifier constructed using 17 radiomics features and 9 deep learning features provided the best performance with a precision of 0.855, a recall of 0.854, an F1-score of 0.852 and an AUC of 0.943 (95 % CI, 0.873-1.000) in the testing cohort. The C-index of the nomogram was 0.822 (95 % CI, 0.758-0.885) in the training cohort and 0.943 (95 % CI, 0.873-1.000) in the testing cohort with good calibration. Decision curve analysis further confirmed the clinical usefulness of the nomogram for predicting meningioma consistency.
Conclusions:
The proposed method for assessing meningioma consistency based on the fusion of deep learning features and radiomics features is potentially clinically valuable. It can be used to assist physicians in the preoperative determination of tumor consistency.
