Evaluation of Pulmonary Nodules by Radiologists Vs. Radiomics in Stand-Alone and Complementary CT and MRI

Eric Tietz,Gustav Mueller-Franzes,Markus Zimmermann,Christiane Katharina Kuhl,Sebastian Keil,Sven Nebelung,Daniel Truhn

Diagnostics（2024）

RWTH Aachen Univ Hosp

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Increased attention has been given to MRI in radiation-free screening for malignant nodules in recent years. Our objective was to compare the performance of human readers and radiomic feature analysis based on stand-alone and complementary CT and MRI imaging in classifying pulmonary nodules. This single-center study comprises patients with CT findings of pulmonary nodules who underwent additional lung MRI and whose nodules were classified as benign/malignant by resection. For radiomic features analysis, 2D segmentation was performed for each lung nodule on axial CT, T2-weighted (T2w), and diffusion (DWI) images. The 105 extracted features were reduced by iterative backward selection. The performance of radiomics and human readers was compared by calculating accuracy with Clopper–Pearson confidence intervals. Fifty patients (mean age 63 +/− 10 years) with 66 pulmonary nodules (40 malignant) were evaluated. ACC values for radiomic features analysis vs. radiologists based on CT alone (0.68; 95%CI: 0.56, 0.79 vs. 0.59; 95%CI: 0.46, 0.71), T2w alone (0.65; 95%CI: 0.52, 0.77 vs. 0.68; 95%CI: 0.54, 0.78), DWI alone (0.61; 95%CI:0.48, 0.72 vs. 0.73; 95%CI: 0.60, 0.83), combined T2w/DWI (0.73; 95%CI: 0.60, 0.83 vs. 0.70; 95%CI: 0.57, 0.80), and combined CT/T2w/DWI (0.83; 95%CI: 0.72, 0.91 vs. 0.64; 95%CI: 0.51, 0.75) were calculated. This study is the first to show that by combining quantitative image information from CT, T2w, and DWI datasets, pulmonary nodule assessment through radiomics analysis is superior to using one modality alone, even exceeding human readers’ performance.

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CT,MRI,pulmonary nodule,artificial intelligence,radiomics

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