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Table 4 Applications of radiomics-based survival prediction

From: Artificial intelligence-driven radiomics study in cancer: the role of feature engineering and modeling

Image modality

Number of patients

Cancer

Target

Number of radiomics features

Commercial or open-source software

Method

References

CT

878

Lung cancer and HNSCC

Patient survival

Unspecified

Matlab, R

ML: LR, Consensus clustering, Hierarchical clustering

SM: Jaccard index, Pearson correlation analysis

[15]

CT

188

HNSCC

The death prognosis

107

PyRadiomics, 3D Slicer, Matlab

ML: LOOCV

SM: Chi-square test

DL: Deep learning artificial neural networks

[28]

FDG-PET

174

OPC

The risk of ACM

2–3

Matlab, Stata/MP

ML: LOOCV, Cox proportional-hazards regression, Fine and Gray’s proportional sub-hazards model, LR, fivefold CV

SM: Kaplan–Meier analysis, log-rank test, Spearman correlation analysis

[29]

PET, CT, PET/CT

311

Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

PFS, OS

Unspecified

3D Slicer, PyRadiomics, R, ggplot2

ML: Random survival forest, Threefold stratified CV

SM: t-test, Kaplan–Meier analysis, log-rank test, C-index

[30]

CT

44

Laryngeal and hypo-pharyngeal cancers

DFS

26

Perfusion-4, ROCKIT

ML: Two-loop leave-one-out, Linear discriminant analysis

SM: t-test, ICC, Kappa analysis

[31]

MRI

136

EBV-related NPC

OS

2

Matlab, 3D Slicer, PyRadiomics

ML: Cox regression model, tenfold CV

SM: Kaplan–Meier analysis, log-rank test, Mann–Whitney test or Spearman correlation analysis, ICC

[32]

MRI

504

NPC

Long-term survival

17

AccuContour, PyRadiomics, X-tile, R

ML: LASSO, Cox regression model, tenfold CV

SM: Mann–Whitney U test or t-test, Kaplan–Meier analyses, log-rank test, Hosmer–Lemeshow test, C-index

[33]

MRI

236

Tongue cancer

DFS, OS

15/17/18/25/10

ITK-SNAP, AIMT, Python, R, SPSS

ML: PCA, SVM, Cox regression analysis, fivefold CV

SM: DeLong test, Spearman correlation analysis, Kaplan–Meier analysis, log-rank test, ICC

[34]

MRI

346

Rectal cancer

3-year recurrence-free survival

4/5/10

GE Healthcare, 3D Slicer, R, SPSS

ML: LASSO, LR, Cox analysis

SM: ICC, Wilcoxon test, Hosmer–Lemeshow test, t-test, Nonparametric test, Chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test, DeLong test

[35]

  1. CT computed tomography, MRI magnetic resonance imaging, FDG fluorodeoxyglucose, PET positron emission tomography, ML machine learning, SM statistical method, DL deep learning, HNSCC head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, OPC oropharyngeal cancer, NPC nasopharyngeal carcinoma, ACM all-cause mortality, PFS progression-free survival, OS overall survival, DFS disease-free survival, LR logistic regression, LOOCV leave one out cross validation, CV cross validation, ICC intraclass correlation coefficients, LASSO least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, PCA principal component analysis, SVM support vector machine