1. Radiomics analysis for predicting pembrolizumab response in patients with advanced rare cancers
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Pascal O. Zinn, Bettzy Stephen, Priyadarshini Mamindla, Rivka R. Colen, Joud Hajjar, Sara Ahmed, Jordi Rodon Ahnert, Chaan Ng, Christian Rolfo, Nabil Elshafeey, Vivek Subbiah, Murat Ak, Spyridon Bakas, Christine B. Peterson, Raghu Vikram, Mira Ayoub, Aung Naing, and Daniel D. Karp
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Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Immunology ,Disease ,Pembrolizumab ,Logistic regression ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Stable Disease ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,030212 general & internal medicine ,RC254-282 ,Pharmacology ,Clinical/Translational Cancer Immunotherapy ,business.industry ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,Immunotherapy ,medicine.disease ,Clinical trial ,Oncology ,Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Molecular Medicine ,Radiology ,immunotherapy ,business ,Progressive disease - Abstract
BackgroundWe present a radiomics-based model for predicting response to pembrolizumab in patients with advanced rare cancers.MethodsThe study included 57 patients with advanced rare cancers who were enrolled in our phase II clinical trial of pembrolizumab. Tumor response was evaluated using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 and immune-related RECIST (irRECIST). Patients were categorized as 20 “controlled disease” (stable disease, partial response, or complete response) or 37 progressive disease). We used 3D-slicer to segment target lesions on standard-of-care, pretreatment contrast enhanced CT scans. We extracted 610 features (10 histogram-based features and 600 second-order texture features) from each volume of interest. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression was used to detect the most discriminatory features. Selected features were used to create a classification model, using XGBoost, for the prediction of tumor response to pembrolizumab. Leave-one-out cross-validation was performed to assess model performance.FindingsThe 10 most relevant radiomics features were selected; XGBoost-based classification successfully differentiated between controlled disease (complete response, partial response, stable disease) and progressive disease with high accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in patients assessed by RECIST (94.7%, 97.3%, and 90%, respectively; pConclusionOur radiomics-based signature identified imaging differences that predicted pembrolizumab response in patients with advanced rare cancer.InterpretationOur radiomics-based signature identified imaging differences that predicted pembrolizumab response in patients with advanced rare cancer.
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- 2021