MRI Radiomics Data Analysis for Differentiation Between Malignant Mixed Müllerian Tumors and Endometrial Carcinoma

Overview

Journal Cancers (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Oncology

Date 2024 Aug 10

PMID 39123375

Authors

Mayur Virarkar

Taher Daoud

Jia Sun

Matthew Montanarella

Manuel Menendez-Santos

Hagar Mahmoud

Mohammed Saleh

Priya Bhosale

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to compare the quantitative radiomics data between malignant mixed Müllerian tumors (MMMTs) and endometrial carcinoma (EC) and identify texture features associated with overall survival (OS). This study included 61 patients (36 with EC and 25 with MMMTs) and analyzed various radiomic features and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) features. These variables and patient clinicopathologic characteristics were compared between EC and MMMTs using the Wilcoxon Rank sum and Fisher's exact test. The area under the curve of the receiving operating characteristics (AUC ROC) was calculated for univariate analysis in predicting EC status. Logistic regression with elastic net regularization was performed for texture feature selection. This study showed that skewness ( = 0.045) and tumor volume ( = 0.007) significantly differed between EC and MMMTs. The range of cluster shade, the angular variance of cluster shade, and the range of the sum of squares variance were significant predictors of EC status ( ≤ 0.05). The regularized Cox regression analysis identified the "256 Angular Variance of Energy" texture feature as significantly associated with OS independently of the EC/MMMT grouping ( = 0.004). The volume and texture features of the tumor region may help distinguish between EC and MMMTs and predict patient outcomes.

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