Texture Analysis of Fractional Water Content Images Acquired during PET/MRI: Initial Evidence for an Association with Total Lesion Glycolysis, Survival and Gene Mutation Profile in Primary Colorectal Cancer.
Ganeshan, B., Miles, K., Afaq, A. , Punwani, S., Rodriguez, M., Wan, S., Walls, D., Hoy, L., Khan, S., Endozo, R., Shortman, R., Hoath, J., Bhargava, A., Hanson, M., Francis, D., Arulampalam, T., Dindyal, S., Chen, S-H., Ng, T. & Groves, A. (2021). Texture Analysis of Fractional Water Content Images Acquired during PET/MRI: Initial Evidence for an Association with Total Lesion Glycolysis, Survival and Gene Mutation Profile in Primary Colorectal Cancer.. Cancers, 13(11), article number 2715. doi: 10.3390/cancers13112715
Abstract
To assess the capability of fractional water content (FWC) texture analysis (TA) to generate biologically relevant information from routine PET/MRI acquisitions for colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Thirty consecutive primary CRC patients (mean age 63.9, range 42-83 years) prospectively underwent FDG-PET/MRI. FWC tumor parametric images generated from Dixon MR sequences underwent TA using commercially available research software (TexRAD). Data analysis comprised (1) identification of functional imaging correlates for texture features (TF) with low inter-observer variability (intraclass correlation coefficient: ICC > 0.75), (2) evaluation of prognostic performance for FWC-TF, and (3) correlation of prognostic imaging signatures with gene mutation (GM) profile. Of 32 FWC-TF with ICC > 0.75, 18 correlated with total lesion glycolysis (TLG, highest: rs = -0.547, p = 0.002). Using optimized cut-off values, five MR FWC-TF identified a good prognostic group with zero mortality (lowest: p = 0.017). For the most statistically significant prognostic marker, favorable prognosis was significantly associated with a higher number of GM per patient (medians: 7 vs. 1.5, p = 0.009). FWC-TA derived from routine PET/MRI Dixon acquisitions shows good inter-operator agreement, generates biological relevant information related to TLG, GM count, and provides prognostic information that can unlock new clinical applications for CRC patients.
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| Additional Information: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Publisher Keywords: | colorectal cancer; magnetic resonance imaging; Dixon sequence; positron emission tomography; texture analysis |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Departments: | School of Science & Technology > Engineering |
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