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CT and MRI bimodal radiomics for predicting EGFR status in NSCLC patients with brain metastases: A multicenter study
Zhiqiang Ouyang1, Guodong Zhang2, Shaonan He3
1Department of Radiology, Yan an Hospital of Kunming City (Yanan Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), 245 Renmin East Road, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Background:
Leveraging the radiomics information from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) primary lesion and brain metastasis (BM) to develop and validate a bimodal radiomics nomogram that can accurately predict epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) status.
Methods:
A total of 309 NSCLC patients with BM from three independent centers were recruited. Among them, the patients of Center I were randomly allocated into the training and internal test cohorts in a 7:3 ratio. Meanwhile, the patients from Center Ⅱ and Center Ⅲ collectively constitute the external test cohort. All chest CT and brain MRI images of each patient were obtained for image registration and sequence combination within a single modality. After image preprocessing, 1037 radiomics features were extracted from each single sequence. Six machine learning algorithms were used to construct radiomics signatures for CT and MRI respectively. The best CT and MRI radiomics signatures were fitted to establish the bimodal radiomics nomogram for predicting the EGFR status.
Results:
The contrast-enhanced (CE) eXtreme gradient boosting (XG Boost) and T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) + T1-weighted contrast-enhanced imaging (T1CE) random forest models were chosen as the radiomics signature representing primary lesion and BM. Both models were found to be independent predictors of EGFR mutation. The bimodal radiomics nomogram, which incorporated CT radiomics signature and MRI radiomics signature, demonstrated a good calibration and discrimination in the internal test cohort [area under curve (AUC), 0.866; 95 % confidence intervals (CI), 0.778-0.950) and the external test cohort (AUC, 0.818; 95 % CI, 0.691-0.938).
Conclusions:
Our CT and MRI bimodal radiomics nomogram could timely and accurately evaluate the likelihood of EGFR mutation in patients with limited access to necessary materials, thus making up for the shortcoming of plasma sequencing and promoting the advancement of precision medicine.
