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Ji Ye Son1, Ho Yun Lee1, Kyung Soo Lee1, Jae-Hun Kim1, Joungho Han2, Ji Yun Jeong2, O Jung Kwon3, Young Mog Shim4.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to analyze the CT findings of ground-glass opacity nodules diagnosed pathologically as adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA), and invasive adenocarcinoma in order to investigate whether quantitative CT parameters enable distinction of invasive adenocarcinoma from pre-invasive or minimally invasive adenocarcinoma.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25102064 PMCID: PMC4125172 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104066
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Figure 1DFS curves for AIS, MIA and invasive adenocarcinoma (IA) groups.
Characteristics of lung adenocarcinoma with little solid component on CT in reference to invasion status (n = 191).
| Variable | Adenocarcinoma In Situ (AIS) (n = 38) | Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma (MIA) (n = 61) | Invasive Adenocarcinoma (n = 92) |
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| Age (y) | 59.3±10.0 | 57.7±9.3 | 62.8±9.7 |
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| Male-to-female ratio | 21: 17 | 21: 28 | 49: 55 | 0.21 | |||
| CT parameters | |||||||
| Size (mm) | |||||||
| In lung setting | 13.2±6.7 | 15.2±6.1 | 18.3±6.0 |
| 0.84 | 0.26 |
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| In mediastinal setting | 0.37±1.26 | 0.61±1.57 | 1.26±2.25 |
| >0.99 | 0.24 | 0.08 |
| Volume (cm3) | 0.25±0.29 | 0.41±0.43 | 0.50±0.54 |
| 0.42 | 0.74 |
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| Density | 0.33±0.13 | 0.39±0.12 | 0.43±0.12 |
| 0.10 | 0.12 |
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| Mass (g) | 0.10±0.13 | 0.16±0.16 | 0.21±0.27 |
| 0.59 | 0.28 |
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| Skewness | 0.42±0.50 | 0.48±0.50 | 0.43±0.51 | >0.99 | |||
| Kurtosis | 3.12±1.61 | 2.85±1.10 | 2.76±0.96 | >0.99 | |||
| 2.5th percentile (HU) | −878±58.4 | −861±59.4 | −865±54.0 | >0.99 | |||
| 25th percentile (HU) | −761±82.6 | −742±76.9 | −725±93.9 | 0.98 | |||
| 50th percentile (HU) | −667±112 | −632±101 | −596±118 |
| >0.99 | >0.99 |
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| 75th percentile (HU) | −562±152 | −494±142 | −445±141 |
| 0.49 | 0.70 |
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| 97.5th percentile (HU) | −370±209 | −248±198 | −173±177 |
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| Uniformity | 0.0077±0.0045 | 0.0059±0.0022 | 0.0044±0.0020 |
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| Entropy | 7.42±0.86 | 7.68±0.65 | 8.14±0.64 |
| 0.18 |
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Note—Classified According to the International Multidisciplinary Lung Adenocarcinoma Classification system.
Unless otherwise indicated, data are means ± standard deviation.
**Data number of individuals.
*P<0.05
* P values were calculated with one-way ANOVA.
In terms of size variables and histogram analysis variables, P values are Bonferroni-corrected P values (Bonferroni-correction, P<0.05÷2 for size variables and P<0.05÷7 for histogram variables).
P1 indicates the P values for post hoc analyses of AIS versus MIA.
P2 indicates the P values for post hoc analyses of MIA versus invasive adenocarcinoma.
P3 indicates the P values for post hoc analyses of AIS versus invasive adenocarcinoma.
Multivariate analysis for stratification among AIS, MIA and invasive adenocarcinoma.
| Invasive adenocarcinoma vs. others (AIS or MIA) | |||
| Variable | Odds Ratio | 95% CI |
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| Age (y) | 1.02 | 0.99–1.06 | 0.21 |
| Size in lung setting (mm) | 1.03 | 0.94–1.14 | 0.50 |
| Size in mediastinal setting (mm) | 1.01 | 0.80–1.28 | 0.91 |
| Density | 0.82 | 0.09–7.87 | 0.33 |
| Mass (g) | 0.03 | 0.00–343.21 | 0.45 |
| 50th percentile (HU) | 1.02 | 0.99–1.06 | 0.27 |
| 75th percentile (HU) | 1.04 | 1.01–1.96 |
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| 97.5th percentile (HU) | 1.01 | 0.99–1.02 | 0.10 |
| Uniformity | 0.03 | 0.00–342.21 | 0.45 |
| Entropy | 3.40 | 2.05–5.64 |
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Note.— CI confidence interval.
* P<0.05.
Figure 2CT image, histogram distribution of CT attenuation value, and photomicrograph (hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification, X 40).
(A) is a case of AIS, (B) is a case of MIA, (C) and (D) are cases of invasive adenocarcinoma. First three cases show pure GGNs without a solid component, whereas (D) shows GGN with 2 mm-solid component on CT image. As for histogram distribution, the vertical axis in each histogram shows the number of pixels in the segmented tumor. The red and blue lines indicate the values for 75th and 97.5th percentile. The horizontal axis shows the CT attenuation values. As compared with histograms of (A) AIS and (B) MIA, those of (B) MIA and (C) invasive adenocarcinoma show increased values in the 75th and 97.5th percentile. Tumor density was also increased, whereas tumor mass showed no difference. Histogram of MIA demonstrates a flat peak with high entropy as compared with that of AIS. Histogram graph of (D) shows two peaks, which is different from one peak of (A),(B), and (C). In a photomicrograph of (A) AIS, this circumscribed nonmucinous tumor grows purely with a lepidic pattern. No foci of invasion or scarring are seen. A photomicrograph of (B) MIA consists primarily of lepidic growth with a small (4.8 mm) upper area of acinar invasion. A photomicrograph of (C) invasive acinar adenocarcinoma consists of round to oval-shaped malignant glands invading a fibrous stroma 7 mm in length and a smaller area of lepidic growth only at the tumor periphery. Another photomicrograph of invasive acinar adenocarcinoma (D) shows centrally located bronchus, which is the main cause of solid component of CT image.
Correlation of imaging biomarker features with extent of invasion on pathology.
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| Size In mediastinal setting (cm) |
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| Skewness | −0.01 | 0.89 |
| Kurtosis | −0.10 | 0.16 |
| 2.5th percentile (HU) | 0.004 | 0.95 |
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| 75th percentile (HU) |
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Note—+Data are Spearman correlation coefficients.
* P<0.05.
** P<0.01.
Figure 3Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for predicting invasive adenocarcinoma with imaging parameters.
For invasive adenocarcinoma prediction, ROC curve based on the combination of the 75th percentile CT attenuation value and entropy also shows significant diagnostic accuracy (AUC, 0.780).