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SU‐D‐BRC‐03: Spatial‐Temporal PET‐CT Features for Predicting Pathological Response of Esophagus Cancer to Chemo‐Radiation Therapies

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Tan, S; Chen, W; lu, M; Kim, G; Feigenberg, S; D'souza, W; Suntharalingam, M; lu, W
Published in: Medical Physics
January 1, 2011

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop new PET‐CT features for predicting the pathology response of esophagus tumor to chemo‐radiation therapies, and to compare their discriminant power with SUV‐max and SUV‐peak. Methods: Fifteen patients with locally advanced esophagus cancer and treated with tri‐modality therapies were studied. All patients underwent a Pre‐treatment and a Post‐treatment PET/CT. The Pre‐ and Post‐ CT images were first aligned with a rigid registration constrained in the chest region. All images were then projected into the Pre‐PET coordinate. Two different tumor regions of interest (ROI‐SUV2.5 and ROI‐SUVPeak) were produced. Various features capturing tumor shape, texture and intensity information were extracted, resulting in a total of 432 features for each patient. Receiver operating characteristic analyses were performed to investigate and compare the discriminant power of each feature. The ground truth was set to be the pathological response in the surgical specimen. Finally, trend analysis was conducted to examine whether a tumor is more likely a responder as the value of a feature increases or decreases. Results: Five among all 432 features have higher discriminant power than that of SUV‐max and SUV‐peak. These include two shape features, one intensity feature, one texture feature and one shape plus intensity feature. Among them, the Decline of Total Glycolytic Volume feature is extracted from the Diff‐SUV image. All five features were based on the larger tumor region ROI‐SUV2.5. Conclusions: Results demonstrated that shape, texture and intensity information are all important for predicting esophagus tumor pathological response to chemo‐radiation therapies. Integrating both spatial and temporal information is also important. Features based on a larger tumor region seem to be better than those based on a single point or a smaller tumor region. This work is supported in part by NIH 1R21CA131979. © 2011, American Association of Physicists in Medicine. All rights reserved.

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Medical Physics

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0094-2405

Publication Date

January 1, 2011

Volume

38

Issue

6

Start / End Page

3384

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis
  • 0903 Biomedical Engineering
  • 0299 Other Physical Sciences
 

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Tan, S., Chen, W., lu, M., Kim, G., Feigenberg, S., D’souza, W., … lu, W. (2011). SU‐D‐BRC‐03: Spatial‐Temporal PET‐CT Features for Predicting Pathological Response of Esophagus Cancer to Chemo‐Radiation Therapies. In Medical Physics (Vol. 38, p. 3384). https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3611527
Tan, S., W. Chen, M. lu, G. Kim, S. Feigenberg, W. D’souza, M. Suntharalingam, and W. lu. “SU‐D‐BRC‐03: Spatial‐Temporal PET‐CT Features for Predicting Pathological Response of Esophagus Cancer to Chemo‐Radiation Therapies.” In Medical Physics, 38:3384, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3611527.
Tan S, Chen W, lu M, Kim G, Feigenberg S, D’souza W, et al. SU‐D‐BRC‐03: Spatial‐Temporal PET‐CT Features for Predicting Pathological Response of Esophagus Cancer to Chemo‐Radiation Therapies. In: Medical Physics. 2011. p. 3384.
Tan, S., et al. “SU‐D‐BRC‐03: Spatial‐Temporal PET‐CT Features for Predicting Pathological Response of Esophagus Cancer to Chemo‐Radiation Therapies.” Medical Physics, vol. 38, no. 6, 2011, p. 3384. Scopus, doi:10.1118/1.3611527.
Tan S, Chen W, lu M, Kim G, Feigenberg S, D’souza W, Suntharalingam M, lu W. SU‐D‐BRC‐03: Spatial‐Temporal PET‐CT Features for Predicting Pathological Response of Esophagus Cancer to Chemo‐Radiation Therapies. Medical Physics. 2011. p. 3384.

Published In

Medical Physics

DOI

ISSN

0094-2405

Publication Date

January 1, 2011

Volume

38

Issue

6

Start / End Page

3384

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis
  • 0903 Biomedical Engineering
  • 0299 Other Physical Sciences