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Differentiating high-grade patterns and predominant subtypes for IASLC grading in invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma
Sunyi Zheng1, Jiaxin Liu1, Jiping Xie2
1Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer, State Key Laboratory of Druggability Evaluation and Systematic Translational Medicine, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Digestive Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, China.
Objectives:
The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) grading system for invasive non-mucinous adenocarcinoma (ADC) incorporates high-grade patterns (HGP) and predominant subtypes (PS). Following the system, this study aimed to explore the feasibility of predicting HGP and PS for IASLC grading.
Materials And Methods:
A total of 529 ADCs from patients who underwent radical surgical resection were randomly divided into training and validation datasets in a 7:3 ratio. A two-step model consisting of two submodels was developed for IASLC grading. One submodel assessed whether the HGP exceeded 20% for ADCs, whereas the other distinguished between lepidic and acinar/papillary PS. The predictions from both submodels determined the final IASLC grades. Two variants of this model using either radiomic or clinical-semantic features were created. Additionally, one-step models that directly assessed IASLC grades using clinical-semantic or radiomic features were developed for comparison. The area under the curve (AUC) was used for model evaluation.
Results:
The two-step radiomic model achieved the highest AUC values of 0.95, 0.85, 0.96 for grades 1, 2, 3 among models. The two-step models outperformed the one-step models in predicting grades 2 and 3, with AUCs of 0.89 and 0.96 vs. 0.53 and 0.81 for radiomics, and 0.68 and 0.77 vs. 0.44 and 0.63 for clinical-semantics (p < 0.001). Radiomics models showed better AUCs than clinical-semantic models for grade 3 regardless of model steps.
Conclusions:
Predicting HGP and PS using radiomics can achieve accurate IASLC grading in ADCs. Such a two-step radiomics model may provide precise preoperative diagnosis, thereby supporting treatment planning.
