Radiomic Features of Multiparametric MRI Present Stable Associations With Analogous Histological Features in Patients With Brain Cancer. Tomography 2020 Jun;6(2):160-169
Date
06/18/2020Pubmed ID
32548292Pubmed Central ID
PMC7289245DOI
10.18383/j.tom.2019.00029Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85086686895 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 22 CitationsAbstract
Magnetic resonance (MR)-derived radiomic features have shown substantial predictive utility in modeling different prognostic factors of glioblastoma and other brain cancers. However, the biological relationship underpinning these predictive models has been largely unstudied, and the generalizability of these models had been called into question. Here, we examine the localized relationship between MR-derived radiomic features and histology-derived "histomic" features using a data set of 16 patients with brain cancer. Tile-based radiomic features were collected on T1, post-contrast T1, FLAIR, and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI)-derived apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) images acquired before patient death, with analogous histomic features collected for autopsy samples coregistered to the magnetic resonance imaging. Features were collected for each original image, as well as a 3D wavelet decomposition of each image, resulting in 837 features per MR and histology image. Correlative analyses were used to assess the degree of association between radiomic-histomic pairs for each magnetic resonance imaging. The influence of several confounds was also assessed using linear mixed-effect models for the normalized radiomic-histomic distance, testing for main effects of different acquisition field strengths. Results as a whole were largely heterogeneous, but several features showed substantial associations with their histomic analogs, particularly those derived from the FLAIR and postcontrast T1W images. These features with the strongest association typically presented as stable across field strengths as well. These data suggest that a subset of radiomic features can consistently capture texture information on underlying tissue histology.
Author List
Bobholz SA, Lowman AK, Barrington A, Brehler M, McGarry S, Cochran EJ, Connelly J, Mueller WM, Agarwal M, O'Neill D, Nencka AS, Banerjee A, LaViolette PSAuthors
Mohit Agarwal MD Adjunct Associate Professor in the Radiology department at Medical College of WisconsinAnjishnu Banerjee PhD Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Elizabeth J. Cochran MD Adjunct Professor in the Pathology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Jennifer M. Connelly MD Professor in the Neurology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Peter LaViolette PhD Professor in the Radiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Wade M. Mueller MD Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Andrew S. Nencka PhD Director, Associate Professor in the Radiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdultAged
Aged, 80 and over
Brain Neoplasms
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Female
Glioblastoma
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
