Predicting aggressive disease and poor outcome in endometrial cancer using preoperative [18F]FDG PET primary tumor radiomics.

Purpose: To develop a [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) primary tumor radiomic model for predicting disease-specific survival (DSS), and compare it with conventional PET markers in a large endometrial cancer cohort. Methods: Radiomic features were extracted from p...

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Published in:European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 167 - 181
Main Authors: Fasmer, Kristine Eldevik, Gulati, Ankush, Lindås, Sunniva, Krakstad, Camilla, Haldorsen, Ingfrid Salvesen
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2025
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          Fasmer, Kristine Eldevik
          Gulati, Ankush
          Lindås, Sunniva
          Krakstad, Camilla
          Haldorsen, Ingfrid Salvesen
        affil: https://ror.org/03np4e098 Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre, Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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      ab: Purpose: To develop a [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) primary tumor radiomic model for predicting disease-specific survival (DSS), and compare it with conventional PET markers in a large endometrial cancer cohort. Methods: Radiomic features were extracted from preoperative [18F]FDG PET scans of 489 endometrial cancer patients using a standardized uptake value (SUV) threshold > 2.5 to define primary metabolic tumor volumes (MTVs). A second reader extracted features in 154/489 patients, in which intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were calculated. Radiomic features with ICCs > 0.75 were retained and ComBat harmonization was applied to reduce scanner/protocol effects on the extracted features. Patients were divided into training (n = 343) and test (n = 146) sets. A radiomic DSS score (Rdss) was developed in the training set using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression. A combined model (Cdss), incorporating Rdss, PET positive lymph nodes (LNPET) and preoperative histology risk was constructed using multivariable Cox hazard analyses. Prediction performances were assessed by comparing areas under time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curves (tdROCs AUCs) for Rdss, Cdss, and conventional PET markers: SUVmax, SUVmean, MTV, tumor lesion glycolysis (TLG) and LNPET. Results: In the test set, AUCs for 2- and 5-year DSS were higher for Rdss (0.855, 0.720) compared to SUVmax (0.548, 0.572) and SUVmean (0.549, 0.554) (p ≤ 0.04 for all), while similar to MTV (0.863, 0.696), TLG (0.814, 0.672) and LNPET (0.802, 0.626) (p ≥ 0.12 for all). Cdss predicted 2-year DSS with AUC of 0.909 in the test set, outperforming all conventional imaging markers (p ≤ 0.04 for all) except MTV (p = 0.29). For 5-year DSS, Cdss (AUC: 0.817) outperformed all conventional imaging markers, including MTV (AUC ≤ 0.696, p ≤ 0.05, for all). Conclusion: Rdss predicts short-term survival with high accuracy, outperforming tumor SUVmax/mean, but not MTV, TLG and LNPET. The combined Cdss model yields high accuracy for predicting both short- and long-term survival, outperforming all conventional PET imaging markers.
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