Stephanie Harmon1, Christopher W Seder2, Song Chen1,3, Anne Traynor1, Robert Jeraj1, Justin D Blasberg4. 1. Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. 2. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA. 3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, The 1st Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110016, China. 4. Department of Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Preoperative identification of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients at risk for disease recurrence has proven unreliable. The extraction of quantitative metrics from imaging based on tumor intensity and texture may enhanced disease characterization. This study evaluated tumor-specific 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (PET/CT) uptake patterns and their association with disease recurrence in early-stage NSCLC. METHODS: Sixty-four stage I/II NSCLC patients who underwent anatomic resection between 2001 and 2014 were examined. Pathologically or radiographic confirmed disease recurrence within 5 years of resection comprised the study group. Quantitative imaging metrics were extracted within the primary tumor volume. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (N=27) and adenocarcinoma (AC) (N=41) patients were compared using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Associations between imaging and clinical variables with 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were evaluated by Cox proportional-hazards regression. RESULTS: Clinical and pathologic characteristics were similar between recurrence (N=34) and patients achieving 5-year DFS (N=30). Standardized uptake value (SUV)max and SUVmean varied significantly by histology, with SCC demonstrating higher uptake intensity and heterogeneity patterns. Entropy-grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) was a significant univariate predictor of DFS (HR =0.72, P=0.04) and OS (HR =0.65, P=0.007) independent of histology. Texture features showed higher predictive ability for DFS in SCC than AC. Pathologic node status and staging classification were the strongest clinical predictors of DFS, independent of histology. CONCLUSIONS: Several imaging metrics correlate with increased risk for disease recurrence in early-stage NSCLC. The predictive ability of imaging was strongest when patients are stratified by histology. The incorporation of 18F-FDG PET/CT texture features with preoperative risk factors and tumor characteristics may improve identification of high-risk patients.
BACKGROUND: Preoperative identification of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients at risk for disease recurrence has proven unreliable. The extraction of quantitative metrics from imaging based on tumor intensity and texture may enhanced disease characterization. This study evaluated tumor-specific 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (PET/CT) uptake patterns and their association with disease recurrence in early-stage NSCLC. METHODS: Sixty-four stage I/II NSCLC patients who underwent anatomic resection between 2001 and 2014 were examined. Pathologically or radiographic confirmed disease recurrence within 5 years of resection comprised the study group. Quantitative imaging metrics were extracted within the primary tumor volume. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (N=27) and adenocarcinoma (AC) (N=41) patients were compared using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Associations between imaging and clinical variables with 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were evaluated by Cox proportional-hazards regression. RESULTS: Clinical and pathologic characteristics were similar between recurrence (N=34) and patients achieving 5-year DFS (N=30). Standardized uptake value (SUV)max and SUVmean varied significantly by histology, with SCC demonstrating higher uptake intensity and heterogeneity patterns. Entropy-grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) was a significant univariate predictor of DFS (HR =0.72, P=0.04) and OS (HR =0.65, P=0.007) independent of histology. Texture features showed higher predictive ability for DFS in SCC than AC. Pathologic node status and staging classification were the strongest clinical predictors of DFS, independent of histology. CONCLUSIONS: Several imaging metrics correlate with increased risk for disease recurrence in early-stage NSCLC. The predictive ability of imaging was strongest when patients are stratified by histology. The incorporation of 18F-FDG PET/CT texture features with preoperative risk factors and tumor characteristics may improve identification of high-risk patients.
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