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Background
Treatment approaches for NSCLC patients differ depending on stage, histology, genetic alterations, and patient’s condition. Stage III NSCLC patients are non-surgical candidates and currently treated with chemoradiotherapy eventually followed by immunotherapy. For these patients, the occurrence of treatment-related diseases such as radiation pneumonitis could be observed. Thus, an early identification of which patients are more prone to develop radiation pneumonitis via AI-based models could be crucial to define personalized treatment approaches and improve patients’ prognosis.
Methods
We designed an AI approach to identify Stage III NSCLC patients at high risk of developing radiation pneumonitis. For this purpose, we analyzed pre-treatment CT images belonging to 54 Stage III NSCLC patients afferent to Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” of Bari (Italy), in which radiation pneumonitis was observed for 24 patients. For each patient we identified the CT slide presenting the largest tumor area. Starting from this CT slide, we selected other four CT slides, the two immediately preceding and the two immediately following the one with largest tumor area. Then, for all the selected CT slides, we defined a bounding box around the extremal points of the tumour in the four planar x-y dimensions. Finally, we exploited these images to train the last few layers of a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network, that is ResNet50, adopting a 5-fold cross-validation scheme after identifying each time a validation set containing the 15% of the starting dataset.
Results
The performances of the designed model was summarized in terms of mean and 95% confidence interval. On the test and validation set, our model achieved respectively an AUC value of 90.60% [85.08-93.99] and 62.06% [61.25-67.38], a Sensitivity value of 94.12% [73.03-99.96] and 66.67% [60.02-75.69], a Specificity value of 76.31% [69.43-91.17] and 75.20% [59.52-75.20], and an Accuracy value of 81.81% [73.23-93.63] and 65.50% [62.50-67.88].
Conclusions
The proposed AI-based model represents a promising procedure for early identifying Stage III NSCLC patients at high risk of developing radiation pneumonitis, with the purpose of defining personalized treatment approaches and improving patients’ prognosis.
Clinical trial identification
Editorial acknowledgement
Legal entity responsible for the study
R. Massafra.
Funding
Ministry of Health.
Disclosure
All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
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