Prediction of treatment outcome in soft tissue sarcoma based on radiologically defined habitats

Hamidreza Farhidzadeh; Baishali Chaudhury; Mu Zhou; Dmitry B. Goldgof; Lawrence O. Hall; Robert A. Gatenby; Robert J. Gillies; Meera Raghavan

doi:10.1117/12.2082324

20 March 2015 Prediction of treatment outcome in soft tissue sarcoma based on radiologically defined habitats

Hamidreza Farhidzadeh, Baishali Chaudhury, Mu Zhou, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Lawrence O. Hall, Robert A. Gatenby, Robert J. Gillies, Meera Raghavan

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Proceedings Volume 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 94141U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082324
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Soft tissue sarcomas are malignant tumors which develop from tissues like fat, muscle, nerves, fibrous tissue or blood vessels. They are challenging to physicians because of their relative infrequency and diverse outcomes, which have hindered development of new therapeutic agents. Additionally, assessing imaging response of these tumors to therapy is also difficult because of their heterogeneous appearance on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this paper, we assessed standard of care MRI sequences performed before and after treatment using 36 patients with soft tissue sarcoma. Tumor tissue was identified by manually drawing a mask on contrast enhanced images. The Otsu segmentation method was applied to segment tumor tissue into low and high signal intensity regions on both T1 post-contrast and T2 without contrast images. This resulted in four distinctive subregions or “habitats.” The features used to predict metastatic tumors and necrosis included the ratio of habitat size to whole tumor size and components of 2D intensity histograms. Individual cases were correctly classified as metastatic or non-metastatic disease with 80.55% accuracy and for necrosis ≥ 90 or necrosis <90 with 75.75% accuracy by using meta-classifiers which contained feature selectors and classifiers.

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Hamidreza Farhidzadeh, Baishali Chaudhury, Mu Zhou, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Lawrence O. Hall, Robert A. Gatenby, Robert J. Gillies, and Meera Raghavan "Prediction of treatment outcome in soft tissue sarcoma based on radiologically defined habitats", Proc. SPIE 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 94141U (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082324

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