Title
Texture analysis of automatic graph cuts segmentations for detection of lung cancer recurrence after stereotactic radiotherapy
Abstract
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a treatment for early-stage lung cancer with local control rates comparable to surgery. After SABR, benign radiation induced lung injury (RILI) results in tumour-mimicking changes on computed tomography (CT) imaging. Distinguishing recurrence from RILI is a critical clinical decision determining the need for potentially life-saving salvage therapies whose high risks in this population dictate their use only for true recurrences. Current approaches do not reliably detect recurrence within a year post-SABR. We measured the detection accuracy of texture features within automatically determined regions of interest, with the only operator input being the single line segment measuring tumour diameter, normally taken during the clinical workflow. Our leave-one-out cross validation on images taken 2-5 months post-SABR showed robustness of the entropy measure, with classification error of 26% and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.77 using automatic segmentation; the results using manual segmentation were 24% and 0.75, respectively. AUCs for this feature increased to 0.82 and 0.93 at 8-14 months and 14-20 months post SABR, respectively, suggesting even better performance nearer to the date of clinical diagnosis of recurrence; thus this system could also be used to support and reinforce the physician's decision at that time. Based on our ongoing validation of this automatic approach on a larger sample, we aim to develop a computer-aided diagnosis system which will support the physician's decision to apply timely salvage therapies and prevent patients with RILI from undergoing invasive and risky procedures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2081427
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cancer therapy response assessment,quantitative imaging biomarkers,lung cancer,radiation-induced lung injury,stereotactic radiotherapy,texture analysis,classification,segmentation
Lung cancer,Population,Receiver operating characteristic,Computer-aided diagnosis,SABR volatility model,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Computer vision,Segmentation,Radiation therapy,Medical physics,Radiology,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9417
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
sarah a mattonen100.68
david a palma200.68
Cornelis J A Haasbeek310.77
Suresh Senan472.92
Aaron D Ward58922.61