Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 126-131Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2019.06.010
Keywords
Texture feature; Lung adenocarcinoma; Ground glass nodule
Funding
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LSY19H180003]
- Medical Health Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission [2019316526]
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Objectives: To investigate the validity and efficacy of comparing texture features from contrast-enhanced images with non-enhanced images in identifying infiltrative lung adenocarcinoma represented as ground glass nodules (GGN). Materials and methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted with patients presenting with lung adenocarcinoma and treated at a single centre between January 2015 to December 2017. All patients underwent standard and contrast-enhanced thoracic CT scans with 0.5 mm collimation and 1 mm slice reconstruction thickness before surgery. A total of 34 lung adenocarcinoma patients (representing 34 lesions) were analysed; including 21 instances of invasive adenocarcinoma (IAC) lesions, 4 instances of adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) lesions, and 9 minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) lesions. After radiologists manually segmented the lesions, texture features were quantitatively extracted using Artificial Intelligence Kit (AK) software. Then, multivariate logistic regression analysis based on standard and contrast-enhanced CT texture features was employed to analyse the invasiveness of lung adenocarcinoma lesions appearing as GGNs. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to evaluate the performance of those models. Results: A total of 21 quantitative texture features were extracted using the AK software. After dimensionality reduction, 5 and 3 features extracted from thin-section unenhanced and contrast-enhanced CT, respectively, were used to establish the model. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) values for unenhanced CT and enhanced CT features were 0.890 and 0.868, respectively. There was no significant difference (P = 0.190) in the AUC between models based on non-enhanced and contrast-enhanced CT texture features. Conclusion: Compared with unenhanced CT, texture features extracted from contrast-enhanced CT provided no benefit in improving the differential diagnosis of infiltrative lung adenocarcinoma from non-infiltrative malignancies appearing as GGNs.
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