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Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of convolution kernel and iterative reconstruction on the diagnostic performance of radiomics and deep learning (DL) in lung adenocarcinomas. Methods: A total of 183 patients with 215 lung adenocarcinomas were included in this study. All CT imaging data was reconstructed with three reconstruction algorithms (ASiR at 0%, 30%, 60% strength), each with two convolution kernels (bone and standard). A total of 171 nodules were selected as the training‐validation set, whereas 44 nodules were selected as the testing set. Logistic regression and a DL framework‐DenseNets were selected to tackle the task. Three logical experiments were implemented to fully explore the influence of the studied parameters on the diagnostic performance. The receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was used to evaluate the performance of constructed models. Results: In Experiments A and B, no statistically significant results were found in the radiomic method, whereas two and six pairs were statistically significant (P < 0.05) in the DL method. In Experiment_C, significant differences in one and four models were found in the radiomics and DL methods, respectively. Moreover, models constructed with standard convolution kernel data outperformed that constructed with bone convolution kernel data in all studied ASiR levels in the DL method. In the DL method, B0 and S60 performed best in bone and standard convolution kernel, respectively. Conclusion: The results demonstrated that DL was more susceptible to CT parameter variability than radiomics. Standard convolution kernel images seem to be more appropriate for imaging analysis. Further investigation with a larger sample size is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To develop a deep learning system based on 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and to automatically predict EGFR‐mutant pulmonary adenocarcinoma in CT images. A dataset of 579 nodules with EGFR mutation status labels of mutant (Mut) or wild‐type (WT) was retrospectively analyzed. A deep learning system, namely 3D DenseNets, was developed to process 3D patches of nodules from CT data, and learn strong representations with supervised end‐to‐end training. The 3D DenseNets were trained with a training subset of 348 nodules and tuned with a development subset of 116 nodules. A strong data augmentation technique, mixup, was used for better generalization. We evaluated our model on a holdout subset of 115 nodules. An independent public dataset of 37 nodules from the cancer imaging archive (TCIA) was also used to test the generalization of our method. Conventional radiomics analysis was also performed for comparison. Our method achieved promising performance on predicting EGFR mutation status, with AUCs of 75.8% and 75.0% for our holdout test set and public test set, respectively. Moreover, strong relations were found between deep learning feature and conventional radiomics, while deep learning worked through an enhanced radiomics manner, that is, deep learned radiomics (DLR), in terms of robustness, compactness and expressiveness. The proposed deep learning system predicts EGFR‐mutant of lung adenocarcinomas in CT images noninvasively and automatically, indicating its potential to help clinical decision‐making by identifying eligible patients of pulmonary adenocarcinoma for EGFR‐targeted therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]