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- Title
A 3D Radiomics-Based Artificial Neural Network Model for Benign Versus Malignant Vertebral Compression Fracture Classification in MRI.
- Authors
Chiari-Correia, Natália S.; Nogueira-Barbosa, Marcello H.; Chiari-Correia, Rodolfo Dias; Azevedo-Marques, Paulo M.
- Abstract
To train an artificial neural network model using 3D radiomic features to differentiate benign from malignant vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) on MRI. This retrospective study analyzed sagittal T1-weighted lumbar spine MRIs from 91 patients (average age of 64.24 ± 11.75 years) diagnosed with benign or malignant VCFs from 2010 to 2019, of them 47 (51.6%) had benign VCFs and 44 (48.4%) had malignant VCFs. The lumbar fractures were three-dimensionally segmented and had their radiomic features extracted and selected with the wrapper method. The training set consisted of 100 fractured vertebral bodies from 61 patients (average age of 63.2 ± 12.5 years), and the test set was comprised of 30 fractured vertebral bodies from 30 patients (average age of 66.4 ± 9.9 years). Classification was performed with the multilayer perceptron neural network with a back-propagation algorithm. To validate the model, the tenfold cross-validation technique and an independent test set (holdout) were used. The performance of the model was evaluated using the average with a 95% confidence interval for the ROC AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity (considering the threshold = 0.5). In the internal validation test, the best model reached a ROC AUC of 0.98, an accuracy of 95% (95/100), a sensitivity of 93.5% (43/46), and specificity of 96.3% (52/54). In the validation with independent test set, the model achieved a ROC AUC of 0.97, an accuracy of 93.3% (28/30), a sensitivity of 93.3% (14/15), and a specificity of 93.3% (14/15). The model proposed in this study using radiomic features could differentiate benign from malignant vertebral compression fractures with excellent performance and is promising as an aid to radiologists in the characterization of VCFs.
- Subjects
THREE-dimensional imaging; CONFIDENCE intervals; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE studies; COMPRESSION fractures; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; PREDICTION models; SENSITIVITY &; specificity (Statistics); LUMBAR vertebrae; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; VERTEBRAL fractures; ALGORITHMS
- Publication
Journal of Digital Imaging, 2023, Vol 36, Issue 4, p1565
- ISSN
0897-1889
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10278-023-00847-4