Quantification of Structural Heterogeneity Using Fractal Analysis of Contrast-Enhanced CT Image to Predict Survival in Gastric Cancer Patients.

Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Hiroki WatanabeHisahiro Matsubara

Abstract

Malignant tumor essentially implies structural heterogeneity. Fractal analysis of medical imaging has a potential to quantify this structural heterogeneity in the tumor AIMS: The purpose of this study is to quantify this structural abnormality in the tumor applying fractal analysis to contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) image and to evaluate its biomarker value for predicting survival of surgically treated gastric cancer patients. A total of 108 gastric cancer patients (77 men and 31 women; mean age: 69.1 years), who received curative surgery without any neoadjuvant therapy, were retrospectively investigated. Portal-phase CE-CT images were analyzed with use of a plug-in tool for ImageJ (NIH, Bethesda, USA), and the fractal dimension (FD) in the tumor was calculated using a differential box-counting method to quantify structural heterogeneity in the tumor. Tumor FD was compared with clinicopathologic features and disease-specific survival (DSS). High FD value of the tumor significantly associated with high T stage and high pathological stage (P = 0.009, 0.007, respectively). In Kaplan-Meier analysis, patients with higher FD tumors (FD > 0.9746) showed a significantly worse DSS (P = 0.009, log rank). Multivariate analys...Continue Reading

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Sep 30, 2021·International Journal of Clinical Oncology·Yoshihiro KurataHisahiro Matsubara

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