Does consensus contour improve robustness and accuracy in 18F-FDG PET radiomic features?

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Zhuang MingzanORCID,Li Xianru,Qiu Zhifen,Guan Jitian

Abstract

Abstract Purpose The purpose of our study is to validate the robustness and accuracy of consensus contour in 2-deoxy-2-[$$^{18}$$ 18 F]fluoro-D-glucose ($$^{18}$$ 18 F-FDG) PET radiomic features. Methods 225 nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and 13 extended cardio-torso (XCAT) simulated data were enrolled. All segmentation were performed with four segmentation methods under two different initial masks, respectively. Consensus contour (ConSeg) was then developed using the majority vote rule. 107 radiomic features were extracted by Pyradiomics based on segmentation and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated for each feature between masks or among segmentation, respectively. In XCAT ICC between segmentation and simulated ground truth were also calculated to access the accuracy. Results ICC varied with the dataset, segmentation method, initial mask and feature type. ConSeg presented higher ICC for radiomic features in robustness tests and similar ICC in accuracy tests, compared with the average of four segmentation results. Higher ICC were also generally observed in irregular initial masks compared with rectangular masks in both robustness and accuracy tests. Furthermore, 19 features (17.76%) had ICC ≥ 0.75 in both robustness and accuracy tests for any of the segmentation methods or initial masks. The dataset was observed to have a large impact on the correlation relationships between radiomic features, but not the segmentation method or initial mask. Conclusions The consensus contour combined with irregular initial mask could improve the robustness and accuracy in radiomic analysis to some extent. The correlation relationships between radiomic features and feature clusters largely depended on the dataset, but not segmentation method or initial mask.

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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