Pranjal Vaidya1, Kaustav Bera1, Amit Gupta2, Xiangxue Wang1, Germán Corredor1, Pingfu Fu1, Niha Beig1, Prateek Prasanna3, Pradnya D Patil4, Priya D Velu5, Prabhakar Rajiah6, Robert Gilkeson2, Michael D Feldman7, Humberto Choi4, Vamsidhar Velcheti8, Anant Madabhushi9. 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. 2. University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, USA. 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. 4. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. 5. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 6. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 7. University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 8. NYU Langone- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. 9. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: anant.madabhushi@case.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Use of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage lung cancer is controversial because no definite biomarker exists to identify patients who would receive added benefit from it. We aimed to develop and validate a quantitative radiomic risk score (QuRiS) and associated nomogram (QuRNom) for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is prognostic of disease-free survival and predictive of the added benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery. METHODS: We did a retrospective multicohort study of individuals with early-stage NSCLC (stage I and II) who either received surgery alone or surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy. We selected patients for whom we had available pre-treatment diagnostic CT scans and corresponding survival information. We used radiomic texture features derived from within and outside the primary lung nodule on chest CT scans of patients from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, OH, USA; cohort D1) to develop QuRiS. A least absolute shrinkage and selection operator-Cox regularisation model was used for data dimension reduction, feature selection, and QuRiS construction. QuRiS was independently validated on a cohort of patients from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadephia, PA, USA; cohort D2) and a cohort of patients whose CT scans were derived from The Cancer Imaging Archive (cohort D3). QuRNom was constructed by integrating QuRiS with tumour and node descriptors (according to the tumour, node, metastasis staging system) and lymphovascular invasion. The primary endpoint of the study was the assessment of the performance of QuRiS and QuRNom in predicting disease-free survival. The added benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy estimated using QuRiS and QuRNom was validated by comparing patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy versus patients who underwent surgery alone in cohorts D1-D3. FINDINGS: We included: 329 patients in cohort D1 (73 [22%] had surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy and 256 (78%) had surgery alone); 114 patients in cohort D2 (33 [29%] had surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy and 81 (71%) had surgery alone); and 82 patients in cohort D3 (24 [29%] had surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy and 58 (71%) had surgery alone). QuRiS comprised three intratumoral and 10 peritumoral CT-radiomic features and was found to be significantly associated with disease-free survival (ie, prognostic validation of QuRiS; hazard ratio for predicted high-risk vs predicted low-risk groups 1·56, 95% CI 1·08-2·23, p=0·016 for cohort D1; 2·66, 1·24-5·68, p=0·011 for cohort D2; and 2·67, 1·39-5·11, p=0·0029 for cohort D3). To validate the predictive performance of QuRiS, patients were partitioned into three risk groups (high, intermediate, and low risk) on the basis of their corresponding QuRiS. Patients in the high-risk group were observed to have significantly longer survival with adjuvant chemotherapy than patients who underwent surgery alone (0·27, 0·08-0·95, p=0·042, for cohort D1; 0·08, 0·01-0·42, p=0·0029, for cohorts D2 and D3 combined). As concerns QuRNom, the nomogram-estimated survival benefit was predictive of the actual efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy (0·25, 0·12-0·55, p<0·0001, for cohort D1; 0·13, <0·01-0·99, p=0·0019 for cohort D3). INTERPRETATION: QuRiS and QuRNom were validated as being prognostic of disease-free survival and predictive of the added benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy, especially in clinically defined low-risk groups. Since QuRiS is based on routine chest CT imaging, with additional multisite independent validation it could potentially be employed for decision management in non-invasive treatment of resectable lung cancer. FUNDING: National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources, US Department of Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service, Department of Defence, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Wallace H Coulter Foundation, Case Western Reserve University, and Dana Foundation.
BACKGROUND: Use of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage lung cancer is controversial because no definite biomarker exists to identify patients who would receive added benefit from it. We aimed to develop and validate a quantitative radiomic risk score (QuRiS) and associated nomogram (QuRNom) for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is prognostic of disease-free survival and predictive of the added benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery. METHODS: We did a retrospective multicohort study of individuals with early-stage NSCLC (stage I and II) who either received surgery alone or surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy. We selected patients for whom we had available pre-treatment diagnostic CT scans and corresponding survival information. We used radiomic texture features derived from within and outside the primary lung nodule on chest CT scans of patients from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, OH, USA; cohort D1) to develop QuRiS. A least absolute shrinkage and selection operator-Cox regularisation model was used for data dimension reduction, feature selection, and QuRiS construction. QuRiS was independently validated on a cohort of patients from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadephia, PA, USA; cohort D2) and a cohort of patients whose CT scans were derived from The Cancer Imaging Archive (cohort D3). QuRNom was constructed by integrating QuRiS with tumour and node descriptors (according to the tumour, node, metastasis staging system) and lymphovascular invasion. The primary endpoint of the study was the assessment of the performance of QuRiS and QuRNom in predicting disease-free survival. The added benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy estimated using QuRiS and QuRNom was validated by comparing patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy versus patients who underwent surgery alone in cohorts D1-D3. FINDINGS: We included: 329 patients in cohort D1 (73 [22%] had surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy and 256 (78%) had surgery alone); 114 patients in cohort D2 (33 [29%] had surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy and 81 (71%) had surgery alone); and 82 patients in cohort D3 (24 [29%] had surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy and 58 (71%) had surgery alone). QuRiS comprised three intratumoral and 10 peritumoral CT-radiomic features and was found to be significantly associated with disease-free survival (ie, prognostic validation of QuRiS; hazard ratio for predicted high-risk vs predicted low-risk groups 1·56, 95% CI 1·08-2·23, p=0·016 for cohort D1; 2·66, 1·24-5·68, p=0·011 for cohort D2; and 2·67, 1·39-5·11, p=0·0029 for cohort D3). To validate the predictive performance of QuRiS, patients were partitioned into three risk groups (high, intermediate, and low risk) on the basis of their corresponding QuRiS. Patients in the high-risk group were observed to have significantly longer survival with adjuvant chemotherapy than patients who underwent surgery alone (0·27, 0·08-0·95, p=0·042, for cohort D1; 0·08, 0·01-0·42, p=0·0029, for cohorts D2 and D3 combined). As concerns QuRNom, the nomogram-estimated survival benefit was predictive of the actual efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy (0·25, 0·12-0·55, p<0·0001, for cohort D1; 0·13, <0·01-0·99, p=0·0019 for cohort D3). INTERPRETATION: QuRiS and QuRNom were validated as being prognostic of disease-free survival and predictive of the added benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy, especially in clinically defined low-risk groups. Since QuRiS is based on routine chest CT imaging, with additional multisite independent validation it could potentially be employed for decision management in non-invasive treatment of resectable lung cancer. FUNDING: National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources, US Department of Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service, Department of Defence, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Wallace H Coulter Foundation, Case Western Reserve University, and Dana Foundation.
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