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  1. Article ; Online: Predicting the Tumour Response to Radiation by Modelling the Five Rs of Radiotherapy Using PET Images

    Rihab Hami / Sena Apeke / Pascal Redou / Laurent Gaubert / Ludwig J. Dubois / Philippe Lambin / Dimitris Visvikis / Nicolas Boussion

    Journal of Imaging, Vol 9, Iss 124, p

    2023  Volume 124

    Abstract: Despite the intensive use of radiotherapy in clinical practice, its effectiveness depends on several factors. Several studies showed that the tumour response to radiation differs from one patient to another. The non-uniform response of the tumour is ... ...

    Abstract Despite the intensive use of radiotherapy in clinical practice, its effectiveness depends on several factors. Several studies showed that the tumour response to radiation differs from one patient to another. The non-uniform response of the tumour is mainly caused by multiple interactions between the tumour microenvironment and healthy cells. To understand these interactions, five major biologic concepts called the “5 Rs” have emerged. These concepts include reoxygenation, DNA damage repair, cell cycle redistribution, cellular radiosensitivity and cellular repopulation. In this study, we used a multi-scale model, which included the five Rs of radiotherapy, to predict the effects of radiation on tumour growth. In this model, the oxygen level was varied in both time and space. When radiotherapy was given, the sensitivity of cells depending on their location in the cell cycle was taken in account. This model also considered the repair of cells by giving a different probability of survival after radiation for tumour and normal cells. Here, we developed four fractionation protocol schemes. We used simulated and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with the hypoxia tracer 18F-flortanidazole (18F-HX4) images as input data of our model. In addition, tumour control probability curves were simulated. The result showed the evolution of tumours and normal cells. The increase in the cell number after radiation was seen in both normal and malignant cells, which proves that repopulation was included in this model. The proposed model predicts the tumour response to radiation and forms the basis for a more patient-specific clinical tool where related biological data will be included.
    Keywords radiotherapy ; five Rs of radiobiology ; tumour response ; simulation ; PET images ; Photography ; TR1-1050 ; Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ; R858-859.7 ; Electronic computers. Computer science ; QA75.5-76.95
    Subject code 616
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: EANM guidelines for PET-CT and PET-MR routine quality control

    Michel Koole / Ian Armstrong / Aron K. Krizsan / Anne Stromvall / Dimitris Visvikis / Bernhard Sattler / Stephan G. Nekolla / John Dickson

    Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, Vol 33, Iss 1, Pp 103-

    2023  Volume 113

    Abstract: We present guidelines by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) for routine quality control (QC) of PET-CT and PET-MR systems. These guidelines are partially based on the current EANM guidelines for routine quality control of Nuclear ... ...

    Abstract We present guidelines by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) for routine quality control (QC) of PET-CT and PET-MR systems. These guidelines are partially based on the current EANM guidelines for routine quality control of Nuclear Medicine instrumentation but focus more on the inherent multimodal aspect of the current, state-of-the-art PET-CT and PET-MR scanners. We briefly discuss the regulatory context put forward by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and European Commission (EC) and consider relevant guidelines and recommendations by other societies and professional organizations. As such, a comprehensive overview of recommended quality control procedures is provided to ensure the optimal operational status of a PET system, integrated with either a CT or MR system. In doing so, we also discuss the rationale of the different tests, advice on the frequency of each test and present the relevant MR and CT tests for an integrated system. In addition, we recommend a scheme of preventive actions to avoid QC tests from drifting out of the predefined range of acceptable performance values such that an optimal performance of the PET system is maintained for routine clinical use.
    Keywords Guidelines ; Quality control ; PET-CT ; PET-MR ; Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine ; R895-920
    Subject code 600
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  3. Article ; Online: Comparison and Fusion of Machine Learning Algorithms for Prospective Validation of PET/CT Radiomic Features Prognostic Value in Stage II-III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Shima Sepehri / Olena Tankyevych / Taman Upadhaya / Dimitris Visvikis / Mathieu Hatt / Catherine Cheze Le Rest

    Diagnostics, Vol 11, Iss 675, p

    2021  Volume 675

    Abstract: Machine learning (ML) algorithms for selecting and combining radiomic features into multiparametric prediction models have become popular; however, it has been shown that large variations in performance can be obtained by relying on different approaches. ...

    Abstract Machine learning (ML) algorithms for selecting and combining radiomic features into multiparametric prediction models have become popular; however, it has been shown that large variations in performance can be obtained by relying on different approaches. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential benefit of combining different algorithms into an improved consensus for the final prediction, as it has been shown in other fields. Methods: The evaluation was carried out in the context of the use of radiomics from 18 F-FDG PET/CT images for predicting outcome in stage II-III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. A cohort of 138 patients was exploited for the present analysis. Eighty-seven patients had been previously recruited retrospectively for another study and were used here for training and internal validation. We also used data from prospectively recruited patients (n = 51) for testing. Three different machine learning pipelines relying on embedded feature selection were trained to predict overall survival (OS) as a binary classification: Support Vector machines (SVMs), Random Forests (RFs), and Logistic Regression (LR). Two different clinical endpoints were investigated: median OS or OS shorter than 6 months. The fusion of the three approaches was implemented using two different strategies: majority voting on the binary outputs or averaging of the output probabilities. Results: Our results confirm previous findings, highlighting that different ML pipelines select different sets of features and reach different classification performances (accuracy in the testing set ranging between 63% and 67% for median OS, and between 75% and 80% for OS < 6 months). Generating a consensus improved the performance for both endpoints; with the probabilities averaging strategy outperforming the majority voting (accuracy of 78% vs. 71% for median OS and 89 vs. 84% for OS < 6 months). Overall, the performance of these radiomic-based models outperformed the standard clinical staging in both endpoints (accuracy of 58% and ...
    Keywords machine learning ; prospective study ; non-small cell lung cancer ; prognosis ; radiomics ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Subject code 006
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: A machine-learning approach based on 409 treatments to predict optimal number of iodine-125 seeds in low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy

    Nicolas Boussion / Ulrike Schick / Gurvan Dissaux / Luc Ollivier / Gaëlle Goasduff / Olivier Pradier / Antoine Valeri / Dimitris Visvikis

    Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, Vol 13, Iss 5, Pp 541-

    2021  Volume 548

    Keywords low-dose-rate brachytherapy ; prostate cancer ; radioactive seeds ; machine-learning ; Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Termedia Publishing House
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  5. Article ; Online: Radiogenomics-based cancer prognosis in colorectal cancer

    Bogdan Badic / Mathieu Hatt / Stephanie Durand / Catherine Le Jossic-Corcos / Brigitte Simon / Dimitris Visvikis / Laurent Corcos

    Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2019  Volume 7

    Abstract: Abstract Radiogenomics aims at investigating the relationship between imaging radiomic features and gene expression alterations. This study addressed the potential prognostic complementary value of contrast enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) radiomic ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Radiogenomics aims at investigating the relationship between imaging radiomic features and gene expression alterations. This study addressed the potential prognostic complementary value of contrast enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) radiomic features and gene expression data in primary colorectal cancers (CRC). Sixty-four patients underwent CT scans and radiomic features were extracted from the delineated tumor volume. Gene expression analysis of a small set of genes, previously identified as relevant for CRC, was conducted on surgical samples from the same tumors. The relationships between radiomic and gene expression data was assessed using the Kruskal–Wallis test. Multiple testing was not performed, as this was a pilot study. Cox regression was used to identify variables related to overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS). ABCC2 gene expression was correlated with N (p = 0.016) and M stages (p = 0.022). Expression changes of ABCC2, CD166, CDKNV1 and INHBB genes exhibited significant correlations with some radiomic features. OS was associated with Ratio 3D Surface/volume (p = 0.022) and ALDH1A1 expression (p = 0.042), whereas clinical stage (p = 0.004), ABCC2 expression (p = 0.035), and EntropyGLCM_E (p = 0.0031), were prognostic factors for PFS. Combining CE-CT radiomics with gene expression analysis and histopathological examination of primary CRC could provide higher prognostic stratification power, leading to improved patient management.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 616
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: A transfer learning approach to facilitate ComBat-based harmonization of multicentre radiomic features in new datasets.

    Ronrick Da-Ano / François Lucia / Ingrid Masson / Ronan Abgral / Joanne Alfieri / Caroline Rousseau / Augustin Mervoyer / Caroline Reinhold / Olivier Pradier / Ulrike Schick / Dimitris Visvikis / Mathieu Hatt

    PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e

    2021  Volume 0253653

    Abstract: Purpose To facilitate the demonstration of the prognostic value of radiomics, multicenter radiomics studies are needed. Pooling radiomic features of such data in a statistical analysis is however challenging, as they are sensitive to the variability in ... ...

    Abstract Purpose To facilitate the demonstration of the prognostic value of radiomics, multicenter radiomics studies are needed. Pooling radiomic features of such data in a statistical analysis is however challenging, as they are sensitive to the variability in scanner models, acquisition protocols and reconstruction settings, which is often unavoidable in a multicentre retrospective analysis. A statistical harmonization strategy called ComBat was utilized in radiomics studies to deal with the "center-effect". The goal of the present work was to integrate a transfer learning (TL) technique within ComBat-and recently developed alternate versions of ComBat with improved flexibility (M-ComBat) and robustness (B-ComBat)-to allow the use of a previously determined harmonization transform to the radiomic feature values of new patients from an already known center. Material and methods The proposed TL approach were incorporated in the four versions of ComBat (standard, B, M, and B-M ComBat). The proposed approach was evaluated using a dataset of 189 locally advanced cervical cancer patients from 3 centers, with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) images, with the clinical endpoint of predicting local failure. The impact performance of the TL approach was evaluated by comparing the harmonization achieved using only parts of the data to the reference (harmonization achieved using all the available data). It was performed through three different machine learning pipelines. Results The proposed TL technique was successful in harmonizing features of new patients from a known center in all versions of ComBat, leading to predictive models reaching similar performance as the ones developed using the features harmonized with all the data available. Conclusion The proposed TL approach enables applying a previously determined ComBat transform to new, previously unseen data.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 006
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Radiomics Analysis of 3D Dose Distributions to Predict Toxicity of Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer

    François Lucia / Vincent Bourbonne / Dimitris Visvikis / Omar Miranda / Dorothy M. Gujral / Dominique Gouders / Gurvan Dissaux / Olivier Pradier / Florent Tixier / Vincent Jaouen / Julien Bert / Mathieu Hatt / Ulrike Schick

    Journal of Personalized Medicine, Vol 11, Iss 398, p

    2021  Volume 398

    Abstract: Standard treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) is chemoradiotherapy followed by brachytherapy. Despite radiation therapy advances, the toxicity rate remains significant. In this study, we compared the prediction of toxicity events after ... ...

    Abstract Standard treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) is chemoradiotherapy followed by brachytherapy. Despite radiation therapy advances, the toxicity rate remains significant. In this study, we compared the prediction of toxicity events after radiotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC), based on either dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters or the use of a radiomics approach applied to dose maps at the voxel level. Toxicity scores using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v4), spatial dose distributions, and usual clinical predictors for the toxicity of 102 patients treated with chemoradiotherapy followed by brachytherapy for LACC were used in this study. In addition to usual DVH parameters, 91 radiomic features were extracted from rectum, bladder and vaginal 3D dose distributions, after discretization into a fixed bin width of 1 Gy. They were evaluated for predictive modelling of rectal, genitourinary (GU) and vaginal toxicities (grade ≥ 2). Logistic Normal Tissue Complication Probability (NTCP) models were derived using clinical parameters only or combinations of clinical, DVH and radiomics. For rectal acute/late toxicities, the area under the curve (AUC) using clinical parameters was 0.53/0.65, which increased to 0.66/0.63, and 0.76/0.87, with the addition of DVH or radiomics parameters, respectively. For GU acute/late toxicities, the AUC increased from 0.55/0.56 (clinical only) to 0.84/0.90 (+DVH) and 0.83/0.96 (clinical + DVH + radiomics). For vaginal acute/late toxicities, the AUC increased from 0.51/0.57 (clinical only) to 0.58/0.72 (+DVH) and 0.82/0.89 (clinical + DVH + radiomics). The predictive performance of NTCP models based on radiomics features was higher than the commonly used clinical and DVH parameters. Dosimetric radiomics analysis is a promising tool for NTCP modelling in radiotherapy.
    Keywords radiomics ; cervical cancer ; toxicity ; radiotherapy ; NTCP ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  8. Article ; Online: Transcriptomics in cancer revealed by Positron Emission Tomography radiomics

    Florent Tixier / Catherine Cheze-le-Rest / Ulrike Schick / Brigitte Simon / Xavier Dufour / Stéphane Key / Olivier Pradier / Marc Aubry / Mathieu Hatt / Laurent Corcos / Dimitris Visvikis

    Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 11

    Abstract: Abstract Metabolic images from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) are used routinely for diagnosis, follow-up or treatment planning purposes of cancer patients. In this study we aimed at determining if radiomic features extracted from 18F-Fluoro Deoxy ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Metabolic images from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) are used routinely for diagnosis, follow-up or treatment planning purposes of cancer patients. In this study we aimed at determining if radiomic features extracted from 18F-Fluoro Deoxy Glucose (FDG) PET images could mirror tumor transcriptomics. In this study we analyzed 45 patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer (H&N) that underwent FDG-PET scans at the time of diagnosis and transcriptome analysis using RNAs from both cancer and healthy tissues on microarrays. Association between PET radiomics and transcriptomics was carried out with the Genomica software and a functional annotation was used to associate PET radiomics, gene expression and altered biological pathways. We identified relationships between PET radiomics and genes involved in cell-cycle, disease, DNA repair, extracellular matrix organization, immune system, metabolism or signal transduction pathways, according to the Reactome classification. Our results suggest that these FDG PET radiomic features could be used to infer tissue gene expression and cellular pathway activity in H&N cancers. These observations strengthen the value of radiomics as a promising approach to personalize treatments through targeting tumor-specific molecular processes.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: Biomedical Imaging

    Tzu-Chen Yen / Dimitris Visvikis / Tinsu Pan / Yu-Hua Dean Fang

    BioMed Research International, Vol

    Role and Opportunities of Medical Imaging in the “Omics” Era

    2014  Volume 2014

    Keywords Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Hindawi Limited
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  10. Article ; Online: Correlation of intra-tumor 18F-FDG uptake heterogeneity indices with perfusion CT derived parameters in colorectal cancer.

    Florent Tixier / Ashley M Groves / Vicky Goh / Mathieu Hatt / Pierre Ingrand / Catherine Cheze Le Rest / Dimitris Visvikis

    PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 6, p e

    2014  Volume 99567

    Abstract: Methods Thirty patients with proven colorectal cancer prospectively underwent integrated 18F-FDG PET/DCE-CT to assess the metabolic-flow phenotype. Both CT blood flow parametric maps and PET images were analyzed. Correlations between PET heterogeneity ... ...

    Abstract Methods Thirty patients with proven colorectal cancer prospectively underwent integrated 18F-FDG PET/DCE-CT to assess the metabolic-flow phenotype. Both CT blood flow parametric maps and PET images were analyzed. Correlations between PET heterogeneity and perfusion CT were assessed by Spearman's rank correlation analysis. Results Blood flow visualization provided by DCE-CT images was significantly correlated with 18F-FDG PET metabolically active tumor volume as well as with uptake heterogeneity for patients with stage III/IV tumors (|ρ|:0.66 to 0.78; p-value<0.02). Conclusion The positive correlation found with tumor blood flow indicates that intra-tumor heterogeneity of 18F-FDG PET accumulation reflects to some extent tracer distribution and consequently indicates that 18F-FDG PET intra-tumor heterogeneity may be associated with physiological processes such as tumor vascularization.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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