crossrefDiagnostics2023-10-06Cited by 18

Using Radiomics and Machine Learning Applied to MRI to Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer

Valentina Chiappa, Giorgio Bogani, Matteo Interlenghi, Giulia Vittori Antisari, Christian Salvatore, Lucia Zanchi, Manuela Ludovisi, Umberto Leone Roberti Maggiore, Giuseppina Calareso, Edward Haeusler, Francesco Raspagliesi, Isabella Castiglioni

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus radical surgery could be a safe alternative to chemo-radiation in cervical cancer patients who are not willing to receive radiotherapy. The response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the main factor influencing the need for adjunctive treatments and survival. In the present paper we aim to develop a machine learning model based on cervix magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to stratify the single-subject risk of cervical cancer. We collected MRI images from 72 subjects. Among these subjects, 28 patients (38.9%) belonged to the “Not completely responding” class and 44 patients (61.1%) belonged to the ’Completely responding‘ class according to their response to treatment. This image set was used for the training and cross-validation of different machine learning models. A robust radiomic approach was applied, under the hypothesis that the radiomic features could be able to capture the disease heterogeneity among the two groups. Three models consisting of three ensembles of machine learning classifiers (random forests, support vector machines, and k-nearest neighbor classifiers) were developed for the binary classification task of interest (“Not completely responding” vs. “Completely responding”), based on supervised learning, using response to treatment as the reference standard. The best model showed an ROC-AUC (%) of 83 (majority vote), 82.3 (mean) [79.9–84.6], an accuracy (%) of 74, 74.1 [72.1–76.1], a sensitivity (%) of 71, 73.8 [68.7–78.9], and a specificity (%) of 75, 74.2 [71–77.5]. In conclusion, our preliminary data support the adoption of a radiomic-based approach to predict the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

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Using Radiomics and Machine Learning Applied to MRI to Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer

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