郑营营, 徐俊彦, 张建平. The value of18F-FDG PET/CT texture analysis in predicting neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy of locally advanced rectal cancer[J]. China Oncology, 2018, 28(8): 590-594.
郑营营, 徐俊彦, 张建平. The value of18F-FDG PET/CT texture analysis in predicting neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy of locally advanced rectal cancer[J]. China Oncology, 2018, 28(8): 590-594. DOI: 10.19401/j.cnki.1007-3639.2018.08.005.
radiomics analysis has shown certain application value in evaluating tumor heterogeneity and predicting the early effect and prognosis after chemoradiotherapy. This study aimed to predict the pathological response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy of locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Methods: Forty-eight patients diagnosed with T
3-4
and/or N
+
of LARC were retrospectively enrolled. All enrolled patients received baseline
18
F-FDG PET/CT (PET1) before neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and the second
18
F-FDG PET/CT (PET2) within 1 week after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. The operation was performed 6-8 weeks after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. PET/CT images were processed to obtain maximal standardized uptake value (SUV
max
)
metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and texture analysis parameters [including the use of normalized cooccurrence matrix calculation of the entropy (entropy)
contrast
and coarseness based on local gray difference roughness parameter matrix calculation (coarseness)]. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze the correlation between tumor regression grade (TRG) and various parameters
and the area under curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the parameters. The support vector machine (SVM) method was also used to analyze the enrolled cases. Results: Of all patients
20 (41.7%) were responders and 28 (58.3%) were non-responders. The averages of contrast2 based on PET2 among responders and non-responders were 84.2±31.2 and 65.6±21.8 respectively (P=0.038)
and the AUC was 0.677. The SUV
max
MTV
entropy
coarseness and their changes and contrast 1 did not show statistical significance. According to the SVM method
the sensitivities of PET1 and PET2 were 25.0% and 57.1% respectively
an
d the specificities were both 100.0%. Both of the predictive ratios of responders among PET1 and PET2 were 100.0%. The predictive ratios of non-responders among PET1 and PET2 were 53.9% and 66.7%
respectively. The prediction accuracy of PET1 and PET2 were 60.0% and 76.9%
respectively. Conclusion: Contrast 2 as one of the texture analysis parameters of early
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F-FDG PET/CT images and the SVM method can be used to predict the pathological response of LARC after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.