Potential of high dimensional radiomic features to assess blood components in intraaortic vessels in non-contrast CT scans
BMC MEDICAL IMAGING(2021)
Abstract
Background To assess the potential of radiomic features to quantify components of blood in intraaortic vessels to non-invasively predict moderate-to-severe anemia in non-contrast enhanced CT scans. Methods One hundred patients (median age, 69 years; range, 19–94 years) who received CT scans of the thoracolumbar spine and blood-testing for hemoglobin and hematocrit levels ± 24 h between 08/2018 and 11/2019 were retrospectively included. Intraaortic blood was segmented using a spherical volume of interest of 1 cm diameter with consecutive radiomic analysis applying PyRadiomics software. Feature selection was performed applying analysis of correlation and collinearity. The final feature set was obtained to differentiate moderate-to-severe anemia. Random forest machine learning was applied and predictive performance was assessed. A decision-tree was obtained to propose a cut-off value of CT Hounsfield units (HU). Results High correlation with hemoglobin and hematocrit levels was shown for first-order radiomic features ( p < 0.001 to p = 0.032). The top 3 features showed high correlation to hemoglobin values ( p ) and minimal collinearity (r) to the top ranked feature Median ( p < 0.001), Energy ( p = 0.002, r = 0.387), Minimum ( p = 0.032, r = 0.437). Median ( p < 0.001) and Minimum ( p = 0.003) differed in moderate-to-severe anemia compared to non-anemic state. Median yielded superiority to the combination of Median and Minimum ( p (AUC) = 0.015, p (precision) = 0.017, p (accuracy) = 0.612) in the predictive performance employing random forest analysis. A Median HU value ≤ 36.5 indicated moderate-to-severe anemia (accuracy = 0.90, precision = 0.80). Conclusions First-order radiomic features correlate with hemoglobin levels and may be feasible for the prediction of moderate-to-severe anemia. High dimensional radiomic features did not aid augmenting the data in our exemplary use case of intraluminal blood component assessment. Trial registration Retrospectively registered.
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Key words
Radiomics, Blood, Anemia, Artificial intelligence, CT
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