Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2695, USA.
Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92617-2695, USA.
Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 16;14(1):24256. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75993-y.
The rapidly evolving field of radiomics has shown that radiomic features are able to capture characteristics of both tumor and normal tissue that can be used to make accurate and clinically relevant predictions. In the present study we sought to determine if radiomic features can characterize the adverse effects caused by normal tissue injury as well as identify if human embryonic stem cell (hESC) derived extracellular vesicle (EV) treatment can resolve certain adverse complications. A cohort of 72 mice (n = 12 per treatment group) were exposed to X-ray radiation to the whole lung (3 × 8 Gy) or to the apex of the right lung (3 × 12 Gy), immediately followed by retro-orbital injection of EVs. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography images were acquired before and 2 weeks after treatment. In total, 851 radiomic features were extracted from the whole lungs and < 20 features were selected to train and validate a series of random forest classification models trained to predict radiation status, EV status and treatment group. It was found that all three classification models achieved significantly high prediction accuracies on a validation subset of the dataset (AUCs of 0.91, 0.86 and 0.80 respectively). In the locally irradiated lung, a significant difference between irradiated and unirradiated groups as well as an EV sparing effect were observed in several radiomic features that were not seen in the unirradiated lung (including wavelet-LLH Kurtosis, wavelet HLL Large Area High Gray Level Emphasis, and Gray Level Non-Uniformity). Additionally, a radiation difference was not observed in a secondary comparison cohort, but there was no impact of imaging machine parameters on the radiomic signature of unirradiated mice. Our data demonstrate that radiomics has the potential to identify radiation-induced lung injury and could be applied to predict therapeutic efficacy at early timepoints.
放射组学是一个快速发展的领域,它表明放射组学特征能够捕捉肿瘤和正常组织的特征,从而能够做出准确的、具有临床相关性的预测。在本研究中,我们试图确定放射组学特征是否能够描述正常组织损伤引起的不良反应,以及是否可以识别人胚胎干细胞(hESC)衍生的细胞外囊泡(EV)治疗是否可以解决某些不良反应。将 72 只小鼠(每组 12 只)分为三组:一组接受全肺 X 射线照射(3×8 Gy),一组接受右肺尖部 X 射线照射(3×12 Gy),照射后立即经眼眶后注射 EV。治疗前和治疗后 2 周采集锥束 CT 图像。总共从全肺中提取了 851 个放射组学特征,并选择了<20 个特征来训练和验证一系列随机森林分类模型,这些模型旨在预测放射状态、EV 状态和治疗组。结果发现,所有三个分类模型在数据集的验证子集上均达到了显著的高预测准确率(AUC 分别为 0.91、0.86 和 0.80)。在局部照射的肺中,与未照射组相比,照射组的多个放射组学特征存在显著差异,而在未照射肺中则没有这些特征(包括小波-LLH 峰度、小波 HLL 大面积高灰度强调和灰度不均匀性)。此外,在二次比较队列中未观察到放射差异,但成像机器参数对未照射小鼠的放射组学特征没有影响。我们的数据表明,放射组学有可能识别放射性肺损伤,并且可以应用于预测早期治疗效果。
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