Diagnostic performance and inter-operator variability of apparent diffusion coefficient analysis for differentiating pleomorphic adenoma and carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma: comparing one-point measurement and whole-tumor measurement including radiomics approach.

Background and Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) analysis of one-point measurement and whole-tumor measurement, including radiomics for differentiating pleomorphic adenoma (PA) from carcinoma ex pleomorphic adeno...

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Publicado en:Japanese Journal of Radiology Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 207 - 215
Autores principales: Wada, Takeshi, Yokota, Hajime, Horikoshi, Takuro, Starkey, Jay, Hattori, Shinya, Hashiba, Jun, Uno, Takashi
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2020
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Sumario:Background and Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) analysis of one-point measurement and whole-tumor measurement, including radiomics for differentiating pleomorphic adenoma (PA) from carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (CXPA), and to evaluate the impact of inter-operator segmentation variability.Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifteen patients with PA and 22 with CXPA were included. Four radiologists with different experience independently placed one-point and whole-tumor ROIs and a radiomics-predictive model was constructed from the extracted imaging features. We calculated the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve (AUC) for the diagnostic performance of imaging features and the radiomics-predictive model.Results: AUCs of the imaging features from whole-tumor varied between readers (0.50-0.89). The most experienced radiologist (Reader 1) produced significantly high AUCs than less experienced radiologists (Reader 3 and 4; P = 0.01 and 0.009). AUCs were higher for the radiomics-predictive model (0.82-0.87) than for one-point (0.66-0.79) in all readers.Conclusion: Some imaging features of whole-tumor and radiomics-predictive model had higher diagnostic performance than one-point. The diagnostic performance of imaging features from whole-tumor alone varied depending on operator experience. Operator experience appears less likely to affect diagnostic performance in the radiomics-predictive model.