Distinguishing Lymphoma from Benign Lymph Node Diseases in Fever of Unknown Origin using PET/CT Radiomics

Author:

Zhang Xinchao1,Jing Fenglian2,Hu Yujing1,Tian Congna1,Zhang Jianyang3,Li Shuheng4,Wei Qiang1,Li Kang1,Zheng Lu1,Liu Jiale1,Zhang Jingjie1,Bian Yanzhu1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Hebei General Hospital

2. The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University

3. Baoding No 1 Central Hospital

4. Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University

Abstract

Abstract

Background A considerable portion of patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO) present concomitant lymphadenopathy. Diseases within the spectrum of FUO accompanied by lymphadenopathy include lymphoma, infections, and rheumatic diseases. Particularly, lymphoma has emerged as the most prevalent etiology of FUO with associated lymphadenopathy. However, conventional imaging techniques, including PET/CT, often struggle to accurately distinguish between malignant and benign lymph node lesions. This study utilizes PET/CT radiomics to differentiate between malignant and benign lymph node lesions in patients with FUO, aiming to improve the accuracy of diagnosing lymphoma and benign lymph node diseases. Results Data were collected from 204 patients who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT examinations for FUO, including 114 lymphoma patients and 90 patients with benign lymph node lesions. Patients were randomly divided into training and testing groups at a ratio of 7:3. A total of 15 effective features were obtained by the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) algorithm. Machine learning models were constructed using logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithms. In the training group, the AUC values for predicting benign and malignant cases by LR, SVM, RF, and KNN models were 0.936, 0.930, 0.998, and 0.938, respectively. There were statistically significant differences in AUC between the RF and other models (all P < 0.001). In the testing group, the AUC values for the four models were 0.860, 0.866, 0.915, and 0.891, respectively, with no statistically significant differences found between the four models (all P > 0.05). The DCA curves of the RF model outperformed those of the other three models in both the training and testing groups. Conclusions PET/CT radiomics demonstrates promising performance in discriminating lymphoma from benign lymph node lesions in patients with FUO, with the RF model showing the best performance in distinguishing between lymphoma and benign lymph node diseases.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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