Abstract
Purpose: To assess whether CT-based radiomics of the ablation zone (AZ) can predict local tumour progression (LTP) after thermal ablation for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). Materials and methods: Eighty-two patients with 127 CRLM were included. Radiomics features (with different filters) were extracted from the AZ and a 10 mm periablational rim (PAR)on portal-venous-phase CT up to 8 weeks after ablation. Multivariable stepwise Cox regression analyses were used to predict LTP based on clinical and radiomics features. Performance (concordance [c]-statistics) of the different models was compared and performance in an 'independent' dataset was approximated with bootstrapped leave-one-out-cross-validation (LOOCV). Results: Thirty-three lesions (26 %) developed LTP. Median follow-up was 21 months (range 6-115). The combined model, a combination of clinical and radiomics features, included chemotherapy (HR 0.50, p = 0.024), cT-stage (HR 10.13, p = 0.016), lesion size (HR 1.11, p =
Original language | English |
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Article number | 109773 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | European Journal of Radiology |
Volume | 141 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2021 |
Keywords
- Colorectal neoplasms
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Neoplasm metastasis
- Liver
- Ablation techniques
- Neoplasm recurrence
- Local
- Tomography
- X-ray computed
- RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION
- CANCER PATIENTS
- STANDARDIZATION
- TERMINOLOGY
- PERFORMANCE
- RECURRENCE
- SURVIVAL
- CRITERIA
- TEXTURE