Peng Huang1, Hui Yan1, Zhihui Hu1, Zhiqiang Liu1, Yuan Tian1, Jianrong Dai1. 1. Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: To develop a fuzzy clustering neural network to predict radiation-induced pneumonitis (RP) using four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) ventilation image (VI) based dosimetric parameters for thoracic cancer patients. METHODS: The VI were retrospectively calculated from pre-treatment 4DCT data using a deformable image registration (DIR) and an improved VI algorithm. Similar to dose-volume histogram (DVH) of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), dose-function histogram (DFH) was derived from dose distribution and VI. Then, the dose-function metrics were calculated from DFH. For comparison, the dose-volume metrics were calculated from DVH. Correspondingly, two sets of feature vectors were formed from the dose-volume metrics and the dose-function metrics, respectively. For the feature vectors of each set, they were first pre-processed by principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce feature dimensions. Then, they were grouped to few clusters determined by fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm. Next, the neural network was trained to correlate the dosimetric parameters with RP based on the feature vectors of each cluster. Finally, the occurrence of RP was predicted by the neural network on the test data. RESULTS: Through PCA analysis, the top 5 principal components were selected. Their contribution is more than 98%, which is adequate to represent the original feature space of input data. Based on the clustering validity indexes, the optimal number of clusters is 4 and used for subsequent fuzzy clustering of the input data. After network training, the areas under the curve (AUC) of the prediction model is 0.77 using VI-based dosimetric parameters and 0.67 using structure-based dosimetric parameters. CONCLUSIONS: Compared to the structure-based dosimetric features, the VI-based dosimetric features are more relevant to lung function and presented higher prediction accuracy of RP. The fuzzy clustering neural network improved the prediction accuracy of RP compared to the conventional neural network. The combination of VI-based dose-function metrics and fuzzy clustering neural network provides an effective predictive model for assessing lung toxicity risk after radiotherapy. 2021 Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.
BACKGROUND: To develop a fuzzy clustering neural network to predict radiation-induced pneumonitis (RP) using four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) ventilation image (VI) based dosimetric parameters for thoracic cancer patients. METHODS: The VI were retrospectively calculated from pre-treatment 4DCT data using a deformable image registration (DIR) and an improved VI algorithm. Similar to dose-volume histogram (DVH) of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), dose-function histogram (DFH) was derived from dose distribution and VI. Then, the dose-function metrics were calculated from DFH. For comparison, the dose-volume metrics were calculated from DVH. Correspondingly, two sets of feature vectors were formed from the dose-volume metrics and the dose-function metrics, respectively. For the feature vectors of each set, they were first pre-processed by principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce feature dimensions. Then, they were grouped to few clusters determined by fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm. Next, the neural network was trained to correlate the dosimetric parameters with RP based on the feature vectors of each cluster. Finally, the occurrence of RP was predicted by the neural network on the test data. RESULTS: Through PCA analysis, the top 5 principal components were selected. Their contribution is more than 98%, which is adequate to represent the original feature space of input data. Based on the clustering validity indexes, the optimal number of clusters is 4 and used for subsequent fuzzy clustering of the input data. After network training, the areas under the curve (AUC) of the prediction model is 0.77 using VI-based dosimetric parameters and 0.67 using structure-based dosimetric parameters. CONCLUSIONS: Compared to the structure-based dosimetric features, the VI-based dosimetric features are more relevant to lung function and presented higher prediction accuracy of RP. The fuzzy clustering neural network improved the prediction accuracy of RP compared to the conventional neural network. The combination of VI-based dose-function metrics and fuzzy clustering neural network provides an effective predictive model for assessing lung toxicity risk after radiotherapy. 2021 Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.
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