Preoperative assessment of high-grade endometrial cancer using a radiomic signature and clinical indicators

Abstract

Aim: To develop and validate a radiomics-based combined model (ModelRC) to predict the pathological grade of endometrial cancer. Methods: A total of 403 endometrial cancer patients from two independent centers were enrolled as training, internal validation and external validation sets. Radiomic features were extracted from T2-weighted images, apparent diffusion coefficient map and contrast-enhanced 3D volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination images. Results: Compared with the clinical model and radiomics model, ModelRCshowed superior performance; the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves were 0.920 (95% CI: 0.864–0.962), 0.882 (95% CI: 0.779–0.955) and 0.881 (95% CI: 0.815–0.939) for the training, internal validation and external validation sets, respectively. Conclusion: ModelRC, which incorporated clinical and radiomic features, exhibited excellent performance in the prediction of high-grade endometrial cancer.