Fully automated 3D body composition analysis and its association with overall survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients

Frontiers in Oncology(2023)

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ObjectivesWe developed a method for a fully automated deep-learning segmentation of tissues to investigate if 3D body composition measurements are significant for survival of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) patients.Methods3D segmentation of tissues including spine, spine muscles, abdominal muscles, subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), visceral adipose tissue (VAT), and internal organs within volumetric region limited by L1 and L5 levels was accomplished using deep convolutional segmentation architecture - U-net implemented in a nnUnet framework. It was trained on separate dataset of 560 single-channel CT slices and used for 3D segmentation of pre-radiotherapy (Pre-RT) and post-radiotherapy (Post-RT) whole body PET/CT or abdominal CT scans of 215 HNSCC patients. Percentages of tissues were used for overall survival analysis using Cox proportional hazard (PH) model.ResultsOur deep learning model successfully segmented all mentioned tissues with Dice's coefficient exceeding 0.95. The 3D measurements including difference between Pre-RT and post-RT abdomen and spine muscles percentage, difference between Pre-RT and post-RT VAT percentage and sum of Pre-RT abdomen and spine muscles percentage together with BMI and Cancer Site were selected and significant at the level of 5% for the overall survival. Aside from Cancer Site, the lowest hazard ratio (HR) value (HR, 0.7527; 95% CI, 0.6487-0.8735; p = 0.000183) was observed for the difference between Pre-RT and post-RT abdomen and spine muscles percentage.ConclusionFully automated 3D quantitative measurements of body composition are significant for overall survival in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma patients.
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3d body composition analysis,body composition,squamous cell carcinoma patients,squamous cell carcinoma,cell carcinoma
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