Philipp Kickingereder1, Michael Götz2, John Muschelli3, Antje Wick4, Ulf Neuberger5, Russell T Shinohara6, Alexander Radbruch7, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer7, Wolfgang Wick4, Martin Bendszus5, Klaus H Maier-Hein2, and David Bonekamp7
1Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 2Division Medical and Biological Informatics, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 3Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States, 4Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 5Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 6Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 7Department of Radiology, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Synopsis
To analyze the potential of radiomics, an emerging
field of research that aims to utilize the full potential of medical Imaging (1,2), for
predicting and stratifying treatment response to antiangiogenic therapy in patients with
recurrent glioblastoma.
Introduction
Antiangiogenic treatment with bevacizumab is the single most widely used therapeutic agent for patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GB). A major challenge is that there are currently no validated biomarkers that can delineate molecular activity and predict treatment Response (1,2). Here we analyze the potential of radiomics, an emerging field of research that aims to utilize the full potential of medical Imaging (3,4).Methods
A total of 4842 quantitative MRI features (including first-order,
volume and shape features and texture features) were
automatically extracted from the complete three-dimensional tumor bulk of 129
patients with recurrent GB prior antiangiogenic therapy following
transformation of arbitrary MR signal into quantitative intensities (hybrid-white-stripe statistical normalization(5)), then
screened for association with treatment outcome using
bootstrap-resampling methods, and finally analyzed using
unsupervised hierarchical clustering for radiomic signature discovery (Fig. 1). The
utility of the obtained radiomic clusters on stratifying response to
antiangiogenic therapy was modeled via Cox proportional hazards models with
bootstrap resampling for internal validation.
Results
Leveraging
a high throughput approach, we identified a radiomic signature consisting of 82
MRI features that segmented patients to three distinct consensus clusters (Fig. 2) which
predict and stratify treatment response to antiangiogenic therapy by means of
both progression-free and overall survival in patients with recurrent GB (Fig. 3). We
furthermore provide evidence that the cluster of tumors with the
most favorable treatment response arises from an anatomically distinct niche
location.
Conclusions
Our
radiomic signature emerges as a putative imaging biomarker for predicting
response to antiangiogenic therapy in patients with recurrent GB, advances the
knowledge in the non-invasive analysis and characterization of brain tumours,
and stresses the role of radiomics as a novel tool for improving
decision-support in cancer treatment at low cost.
Acknowledgements
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