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  1. Article ; Online: CT-derived body composition associated with lung cancer recurrence after surgery.

    Gezer, Naciye S / Bandos, Andriy I / Beeche, Cameron A / Leader, Joseph K / Dhupar, Rajeev / Pu, Jiantao

    Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

    2023  Volume 179, Page(s) 107189

    Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the impact of body composition derived from computed tomography (CT) scans on postoperative lung cancer recurrence.: Methods: We created a retrospective cohort of 363 lung cancer patients who underwent lung resections and had ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the impact of body composition derived from computed tomography (CT) scans on postoperative lung cancer recurrence.
    Methods: We created a retrospective cohort of 363 lung cancer patients who underwent lung resections and had verified recurrence, death, or at least 5-year follow-up without either event. Five key body tissues and ten tumor features were automatically segmented and quantified based on preoperative whole-body CT scans (acquired as part of a PET-CT scan) and chest CT scans, respectively. Time-to-event analysis accounting for the competing event of death was performed to analyze the impact of body composition, tumor features, clinical information, and pathological features on lung cancer recurrence after surgery. The hazard ratio (HR) of normalized factors was used to assess individual significance univariately and in the combined models. The 5-fold cross-validated time-dependent receiver operating characteristics analysis, with an emphasis on the area under the 3-year ROC curve (AUC), was used to characterize the ability to predict lung cancer recurrence.
    Results: Body tissues that showed a standalone potential to predict lung cancer recurrence include visceral adipose tissue (VAT) volume (HR = 0.88, p = 0.047), subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) density (HR = 1.14, p = 0.034), inter-muscle adipose tissue (IMAT) volume (HR = 0.83, p = 0.002), muscle density (HR = 1.27, p < 0.001), and total fat volume (HR = 0.89, p = 0.050). The CT-derived muscular and tumor features significantly contributed to a model including clinicopathological factors, resulting in an AUC of 0.78 (95% CI: 0.75-0.83) to predict recurrence at 3 years.
    Conclusions: Body composition features (e.g., muscle density, or muscle and inter-muscle adipose tissue volumes) can improve the prediction of recurrence when combined with clinicopathological factors.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/pathology ; Retrospective Studies ; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ; Lung/pathology ; Body Composition/physiology ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-08
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 632771-0
    ISSN 1872-8332 ; 0169-5002
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    DOI 10.1016/j.lungcan.2023.107189
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  2. Article: Computational risk modeling of underground coal mines based on NIOSH employment demographics.

    Beeche, Cameron A / Garcia, Maria Acevedo / Leng, Shuguang / Roghanchi, Pedram / Pu, Jiantao

    Safety science

    2023  Volume 164

    Abstract: Objective: To investigate the feasibility of predicting the risk of underground coal mine operations using data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).: Methods: A total of 22,068 data entries from 3,982 unique ... ...

    Abstract Objective: To investigate the feasibility of predicting the risk of underground coal mine operations using data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
    Methods: A total of 22,068 data entries from 3,982 unique underground coal mines from 1990 to 2020 were extracted from the NIOSH mine employment database. We defined the risk index of a mine as the ratio between the number of injuries and the size of the mine. Several machine learning models were used to predict the risk of a mine based on its employment demographics (i.e., number of underground employees, number of surface employees, and coal production). Based on these models, a mine was classified into a "low-risk" or "high-risk" category and assigned with a fuzzy risk index. Risk probabilities were then computed to generate risk profiles and identify mines with potential hazards.
    Results: NIOSH mine demographic features yielded a prediction performance with an AUC of 0.724 (95% CI 0.717-0.731) based on the last 31-years' mine data and an AUC of 0.738 (95% CI: 0.726, 0.749) on the last 16-years' mine data. Fuzzy risk score shows that risk is greatest in mines with an average of 621 underground employees and a production of 4,210,150 tons. The ratio of tons/employee maximizes the risk at 16,342.18 tons/employee.
    Conclusion: It is possible to predict the risk of underground coal mines based on their employee demographics and optimizing the allocation and distribution of employees in coal mines can help minimize the risk of accidents and injuries.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-19
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1074634-1
    ISSN 1879-1042 ; 0925-7535
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    ISSN 0925-7535
    DOI 10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106170
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  3. Article: CT-Derived Body Composition Is a Predictor of Survival after Esophagectomy.

    Iyer, Kartik / Beeche, Cameron A / Gezer, Naciye S / Leader, Joseph K / Ren, Shangsi / Dhupar, Rajeev / Pu, Jiantao

    Journal of clinical medicine

    2023  Volume 12, Issue 6

    Abstract: Background: Body composition can be accurately quantified based on computed tomography (CT) and typically reflects an individual's overall health status. However, there is a dearth of research examining the relationship between body composition and ... ...

    Abstract Background: Body composition can be accurately quantified based on computed tomography (CT) and typically reflects an individual's overall health status. However, there is a dearth of research examining the relationship between body composition and survival following esophagectomy.
    Methods: We created a cohort consisting of 183 patients who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer without neoadjuvant therapy. The cohort included preoperative PET-CT scans, along with pathologic and clinical data, which were collected prospectively. Radiomic, tumor, PET, and body composition features were automatically extracted from the images. Cox regression models were utilized to identify variables associated with survival. Logistic regression and machine learning models were developed to predict one-, three-, and five-year survival rates. Model performance was evaluated based on the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (ROC/AUC). To test for the statistical significance of the impact of body composition on survival, body composition features were excluded for the best-performing models, and the DeLong test was used.
    Results: The one-year survival model contained 10 variables, including three body composition variables (bone mass, bone density, and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) density), and demonstrated an AUC of 0.817 (95% CI: 0.738-0.897). The three-year survival model incorporated 14 variables, including three body composition variables (intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) volume, IMAT mass, and bone mass), with an AUC of 0.693 (95% CI: 0.594-0.792). For the five-year survival model, 10 variables were included, of which two were body composition variables (intramuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) volume and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) mass), with an AUC of 0.861 (95% CI: 0.783-0.938). The one- and five-year survival models exhibited significantly inferior performance when body composition features were not incorporated.
    Conclusions: Body composition features derived from preoperative CT scans should be considered when predicting survival following esophagectomy.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-08
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2662592-1
    ISSN 2077-0383
    ISSN 2077-0383
    DOI 10.3390/jcm12062106
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  4. Article ; Online: Graphical modeling of causal factors associated with the postoperative survival of esophageal cancer subjects.

    Ren, Shangsi / Beeche, Cameron A / Iyer, Kartik / Shi, Zhiyi / Auster, Quentin / Hawkins, James M / Leader, Joseph K / Dhupar, Rajeev / Pu, Jiantao

    Medical physics

    2023  Volume 51, Issue 3, Page(s) 1997–2006

    Abstract: Purpose: To clarify the causal relationship between factors contributing to the postoperative survival of patients with esophageal cancer.: Methods: A cohort of 195 patients who underwent surgery for esophageal cancer between 2008 and 2021 was used ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: To clarify the causal relationship between factors contributing to the postoperative survival of patients with esophageal cancer.
    Methods: A cohort of 195 patients who underwent surgery for esophageal cancer between 2008 and 2021 was used in the study. All patients had preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) scans prior to receiving any treatment. From these images, high throughput and quantitative radiomic features, tumor features, and various body composition features were automatically extracted. Causal relationships among these image features, patient demographics, and other clinicopathological variables were analyzed and visualized using a novel score-based directed graph called "Grouped Greedy Equivalence Search" (GGES) while taking prior knowledge into consideration. After supplementing and screening the causal variables, the intervention do-calculus adjustment (IDA) scores were calculated to determine the degree of impact of each variable on survival. Based on this IDA score, a GGES prediction formula was generated. Ten-fold cross-validation was used to assess the performance of the models. The prediction results were evaluated using the R-Squared Score (R
    Results: The final causal graphical model was formed by two PET-based image variables, ten body composition variables, four pathological variables, four demographic variables, two tumor variables, and one radiological variable (Percentile 10). Intramuscular fat mass was found to have the most impact on overall survival month. Percentile 10 and overall TNM (T: tumor, N: nodes, M: metastasis) stage were identified as direct causes of overall survival (month). The GGES casual model outperformed GES in regression prediction (R
    Conclusion: The GGES causal model can provide a reliable and straightforward representation of the intricate causal relationships among the variables that impact the postoperative survival of patients with esophageal cancer.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography/methods ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Esophageal Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging ; Esophageal Neoplasms/surgery ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Retrospective Studies
    Chemical Substances Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 (0Z5B2CJX4D)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 188780-4
    ISSN 2473-4209 ; 0094-2405
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    ISSN 0094-2405
    DOI 10.1002/mp.16656
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  5. Article ; Online: Automated identification of pulmonary arteries and veins depicted in non-contrast chest CT scans.

    Pu, Jiantao / Leader, Joseph K / Sechrist, Jacob / Beeche, Cameron A / Singh, Jatin P / Ocak, Iclal K / Risbano, Michael G

    Medical image analysis

    2022  Volume 77, Page(s) 102367

    Abstract: We present a novel integrative computerized solution to automatically identify and differentiate pulmonary arteries and veins depicted on chest computed tomography (CT) without iodinated contrast agents. We first identified the central extrapulmonary ... ...

    Abstract We present a novel integrative computerized solution to automatically identify and differentiate pulmonary arteries and veins depicted on chest computed tomography (CT) without iodinated contrast agents. We first identified the central extrapulmonary arteries and veins using a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. Then, a computational differential geometry method was used to automatically identify the tubular-like structures in the lungs with high densities, which we believe are the intrapulmonary vessels. Beginning with the extrapulmonary arteries and veins, we progressively traced the intrapulmonary vessels by following their skeletons and differentiated them into arteries and veins. Instead of manually labeling the numerous arteries and veins in the lungs for machine learning, this integrative strategy limits the manual effort only to the large extrapulmonary vessels. We used a dataset consisting of 120 chest CT scans acquired on different subjects using various protocols to develop, train, and test the algorithms. Our experiments on an independent test set (n = 15) showed promising performance. The computer algorithm achieved a sensitivity of ∼98% in labeling the pulmonary artery and vein branches when compared with a human expert's results, demonstrating the feasibility of our computerized solution in pulmonary artery/vein labeling.
    MeSH term(s) Algorithms ; Humans ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Pulmonary Artery/diagnostic imaging ; Thorax ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-12
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1356436-5
    ISSN 1361-8423 ; 1361-8431 ; 1361-8415
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  6. Article ; Online: Macrovasculature and positron emission tomography (PET) standardized uptake value in patients with lung cancer.

    Pu, Jiantao / Leader, Joseph K / Zhang, Dongning / Beeche, Cameron A / Sechrist, Jacob / Pennathur, Arjun / Villaruz, Liza C / Wilson, David

    Medical physics

    2021  Volume 48, Issue 10, Page(s) 6237–6246

    Abstract: Purpose: To investigate the relationship between macrovasculature features and the standardized uptake value (SUV) of positron emission tomography (PET), which is a surrogate for the metabolic activity of a lung tumor.: Methods: We retrospectively ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: To investigate the relationship between macrovasculature features and the standardized uptake value (SUV) of positron emission tomography (PET), which is a surrogate for the metabolic activity of a lung tumor.
    Methods: We retrospectively analyzed a cohort of 90 lung cancer patients who had both chest CT and PET-CT examinations before receiving cancer treatment. The SUVs in the medical reports were used. We quantified three macrovasculature features depicted on CT images (i.e., vessel number, vessel volume, and vessel tortuosity) and several tumor features (i.e., volume, maximum diameter, mean diameter, surface area, and density). Tumor size (e.g., volume) was used as a covariate to adjust for possible confounding factors. Backward stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed to develop a model for predicting PET SUV from the relevant image features. The Bonferroni correction was used for multiple comparisons.
    Results: PET SUV was positively correlated with vessel volume (R = 0.44, p < 0.001) and vessel number (R = 0.44, p < 0.001) but not with vessel tortuosity (R = 0.124, p > 0.05). After adjusting for tumor size, PET SUV was significantly correlated with vessel tortuosity (R = 0.299, p = 0.004) and vessel number (R = 0.224, p = 0.035), but only marginally correlated with vessel volume (R = 0.187, p = 0.079). The multiple regression model showed a performance with an R-Squared of 0.391 and an adjusted R-Squared of 0.355 (p < 0.001).
    Conclusions: Our investigations demonstrate the potential relationship between macrovasculature and PET SUV and suggest the possibility of inferring the metabolic activity of a lung tumor from chest CT images.
    MeSH term(s) Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging ; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; Retrospective Studies
    Chemical Substances Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 (0Z5B2CJX4D)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 188780-4
    ISSN 2473-4209 ; 0094-2405
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    DOI 10.1002/mp.15158
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