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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Oncol.
Sec. Breast Cancer
Volume 14 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1451414
This article is part of the Research Topic Artificial Intelligence in Radiology and Radiation Oncology View all articles

Clinical-Radiomics Nomogram Based on the Fat-Suppressed T2 Sequence for Differentiating Luminal and Non-luminal Breast Cancer

Provisionally accepted
Yaxin Guo Yaxin Guo 1,2Shunian Li Shunian Li 1,2Jun Liao Jun Liao 1,2Yuqi Guo Yuqi Guo 3Yiyan Shang Yiyan Shang 2,4Yunxia Wang Yunxia Wang 2,4Qingxia Wu Qingxia Wu 5Yaping Wu Yaping Wu 1,2Meiyun Wang Meiyun Wang 1,2Hongna Tan Hongna Tan 1,2*
  • 1 Department of Radiology, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
  • 2 Department of Radiology, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, Hunan Province, China
  • 3 Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University & Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, zhengzhou, China
  • 4 Department of Radiology, People's Hospital of Henan University, zhengzhou, China
  • 5 Beijing United Imaging Research Institute of Intelligent Imaging, beijing, China

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    : A total of 593 breast cancer patients who underwent preoperative breast MRI from Jan 2017 to Dec 2020 were enrolled, which were randomly divided into the training (n=474) and test sets (n=119) at the ratio of 8:2. Intratumoral region (ITR) of interest were manually delineated, and peritumoral regions of 3 mm and 5 mm (PTR-3 mm and PTR-5 mm) were automatically obtained by dilating the ITR. Intratumoral and peritumoral radiomics features were extracted from the fat-suppressed T2-weighted images, including first-order statistical features, shape features, texture features, and filtered features. The Mann-Whitney U Test, Z score normalization, K-best method, and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) algorithm were applied to select key features to construct radscores based on ITR, PTR-3 mm, PTR-5 mm, ITR+PTR-3 mm and ITR+ PTR-5 mm. Risk factors were selected by univariate and multivariate logistic regressions and were used to construct a clinical model and a clinical-radiomics model that presented as a nomogram. The performance of models was assessed by sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, the area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC), calibration curves, and decision curve analysis (DCA).Results: ITR+PTR-3 mm radsore and histological grade were selected as risk factors.A clinical-radiomics model was constructed by adding ITR+PTR-3mm radscore to the clinical factor, which was presented as a nomogram. The clinical-radiomics nomogram showed the highest AUC (0.873), sensitivity (72.3%), specificity (78.9%) and accuracy (77.0%) in the training set and the highest AUC (0.851), sensitivity (71.4%), specificity (79.8%) and accuracy (77.3%) in the test set. DCA showed that the clinical-radiomics nomogram had the greatest net clinical benefit compared to the other models.The clinical-radiomics nomogram showed promising clinical application value in differentiating luminal and non-luminal breast cancer.

    Keywords: breast cancer, MRI, Radiomics, luminal breast cancer, Peritumoral

    Received: 20 Jun 2024; Accepted: 27 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Guo, Li, Liao, Guo, Shang, Wang, Wu, Wu, Wang and Tan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hongna Tan, Department of Radiology, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan Province, China

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