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. 2018 Mar;45(3):365-375.
doi: 10.1007/s00259-017-3855-5. Epub 2017 Oct 18.

FDG PET/CT radiomics for predicting the outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer

Pierre Lovinfosse  1 , Marc Polus  2 , Daniel Van Daele  2 , Philippe Martinive  3 , Frédéric Daenen  4 , Mathieu Hatt  5 , Dimitris Visvikis  5 , Benjamin Koopmansch  6 , Frédéric Lambert  6 , Carla Coimbra  7 , Laurence Seidel  8 , Adelin Albert  8 , Philippe Delvenne  9 , Roland Hustinx  10
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FDG PET/CT radiomics for predicting the outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer

Pierre Lovinfosse et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2018 Mar.

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT textural analysis in locally-advanced rectal cancer (LARC).

Methods: Eighty-six patients with LARC underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT before treatment. Maximum and mean standard uptake values (SUVmax and SUVmean), metabolic tumoral volume (MTV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), histogram-intensity features, as well as 11 local and regional textural features, were evaluated. The relationships of clinical, pathological and PET-derived metabolic parameters with disease-specific survival (DSS), disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were assessed by Cox regression analysis. Logistic regression was used to predict the pathological response by the Dworak tumor regression grade (TRG) in the 66 patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT).

Results: The median follow-up of patients was 41 months. Seventeen patients (19.7%) had recurrent disease and 18 (20.9 %) died, either due to cancer progression (n = 10) or from another cause while in complete remission (n = 8). DSS was 95% at 1 year, 93% at 2 years and 87% at 4 years. Weight loss, surgery and the texture parameter coarseness were significantly associated with DSS in multivariate analyses. DFS was 94 % at 1 year, 86 % at 2 years and 79 % at 4 years. From a multivariate standpoint, tumoral differentiation and the texture parameters homogeneity and coarseness were significantly associated with DFS. OS was 93% at 1 year, 87% at 2 years and 79% after 4 years. cT, surgery, SUVmean, dissimilarity and contrast from the neighborhood intensity-difference matrix (contrastNGTDM) were significantly and independently associated with OS. Finally, RAS-mutational status (KRAS and NRAS mutations) and TLG were significant predictors of pathological response to nCRT (TRG 3-4).

Conclusion: Textural analysis of baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT provides strong independent predictors of survival in patients with LARC, with better predictive power than intensity- and volume-based parameters. The utility of such features, especially coarseness, should be confirmed by larger clinical studies before considering their potential integration into decisional algorithms aimed at personalized medicine.

Keywords: 18F-FDG PET/CT; Radiomics; Rectal cancer; Textural analysis; Tumor heterogeneity.

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