arXiv:2601.03899eess.IV2026-01被引 1

用MRI和临床数据预测儿童脑瘤化疗效果,提升精准治疗水平。

Ensemble Models for Predicting Treatment Response in Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma Managed with Chemotherapy

  • 融合影像分割与多源数据,用Swin UNETR和XGBoost构建集成模型。
  • 非有效病例召回率达85%,整体准确率69%,优于现有方法。
  • 适合无法全切肿瘤的患儿,助力个性化化疗决策。

本文提出一种新方法,通过术前磁共振成像结合临床信息,预测无法完全手术切除的儿童低级别胶质瘤对化疗的反应。该方法整合先进的儿童脑瘤分割框架,提取增强肿瘤、非增强肿瘤、囊性成分和水肿四类区域的影像组学特征,并结合临床变量(包括性别、种族、年龄、分子亚型、肿瘤位置、初始手术状态、转移状态、转移部位、化疗类型、方案名称及药物),利用Swin UNETR编码器与XGBoost分类器组成的集成模型进行预测。Swin UNETR直接从分割后的MRI中分类响应,而XGBoost基于影像组学与临床数据预测。集成结果在对比方法中表现最优:非有效病例的精确率为0.68,召回率为0.85;有效病例精确率为0.64,整体准确率为0.69,显著优于Mamba-FeatureFuse、Swin UNETR encoder和Swin-FeatureFuse模型。研究结果表明,该集成框架为化疗为主要治疗手段且预后较差的患儿提供了有前景的无创响应预测工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In this paper, we introduce a novel pipeline for predicting chemotherapy response in pediatric brain tumors that are not amenable to complete surgical resection, using pre-treatment magnetic resonance imaging combined with clinical information. Our method integrates a state-of-the-art pediatric brain tumor segmentation framework with radiomic feature extraction and clinical data through an ensemble of a Swin UNETR encoder and XGBoost classifier. The segmentation model delineates four tumor subregions enhancing tumor, non-enhancing tumor, cystic component and edema which are used to extract imaging biomarkers and generate predictive features. The Swin UNETR network classifies the response to treatment directly from these segmented MRI scans, while XGBoost predicts response using radiomics and clinical variables including legal sex, ethnicity, race, age at event (in days), molecular subtype, tumor locations, initial surgery status, metastatic status, metastasis location, chemotherapy type, protocol name and chemotherapy agents. The ensemble output provides a non-invasive estimate of chemotherapy response in this historically challenging population characterized by lower progression-free survival. Among compared approaches, our Swin-Ensemble achieved the best performance (precision for non effective cases=0.68, recall for non effective cases=0.85, precision for chemotherapy effective cases=0.64 and overall accuracy=0.69), outperforming Mamba-FeatureFuse, Swin UNETR encoder, and Swin-FeatureFuse models. Our findings suggest that this ensemble framework represents a promising step toward personalized therapy response prediction for pediatric low-grade glioma patients in need of chemotherapy treatment who are not suitable for complete surgical resection, a population with significantly lower progression free survival and for whom chemotherapy remains the primary treatment option.

肿瘤预测影像组学集成模型儿童脑瘤

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