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EVALUATION STUDY
JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
Unsupervised machine learning of radiomic features for predicting treatment response and overall survival of early stage non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy.
Radiotherapy and Oncology 2018 November
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To predict treatment response and survival of NSCLC patients receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), we develop an unsupervised machine learning method for stratifying patients and extracting meta-features simultaneously based on imaging data.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was performed based on an 18 F-FDG-PET dataset of 100 consecutive patients who were treated with SBRT for early stage NSCLC. Each patient's tumor was characterized by 722 radiomic features. An unsupervised two-way clustering method was used to identify groups of patients and radiomic features simultaneously. The groups of patients were compared in terms of survival and freedom from nodal failure. Meta-features were computed for building survival models to predict survival and free of nodal failure.
RESULTS: Differences were found between 2 groups of patients when the patients were clustered into 3 groups in terms of both survival (p = 0.003) and freedom from nodal failure (p = 0.038). Average concordance measures for predicting survival and nodal failure were 0.640±0.029 and 0.664±0.063 respectively, better than those obtained by prediction models built upon clinical variables (p < 0.04).
CONCLUSIONS: The evaluation results demonstrate that our method allows us to stratify patients and predict survival and freedom from nodal failure with better performance than current alternative methods.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was performed based on an 18 F-FDG-PET dataset of 100 consecutive patients who were treated with SBRT for early stage NSCLC. Each patient's tumor was characterized by 722 radiomic features. An unsupervised two-way clustering method was used to identify groups of patients and radiomic features simultaneously. The groups of patients were compared in terms of survival and freedom from nodal failure. Meta-features were computed for building survival models to predict survival and free of nodal failure.
RESULTS: Differences were found between 2 groups of patients when the patients were clustered into 3 groups in terms of both survival (p = 0.003) and freedom from nodal failure (p = 0.038). Average concordance measures for predicting survival and nodal failure were 0.640±0.029 and 0.664±0.063 respectively, better than those obtained by prediction models built upon clinical variables (p < 0.04).
CONCLUSIONS: The evaluation results demonstrate that our method allows us to stratify patients and predict survival and freedom from nodal failure with better performance than current alternative methods.
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