arXiv:2604.24230cs.CV2026-04

用影像和临床数据预测颅底脑膜瘤放疗后体积变化,提升精准治疗判断。

Radiomics- and Clinical Feature-Driven Prediction of Volumetric Response in Skull-Base Meningioma after CyberKnife Radiosurgery

论文配图:Radiomics- and Clinical Feature-Driven Prediction of Volumetric Response in Skull-Base Meningioma after CyberKnife Radiosurgery
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  • 融合影像特征与临床数据,构建预测模型。
  • 最佳模型AUC达0.81,可有效识别治疗响应者。
  • 适合放射科医生与神经外科团队参考决策。

颅底脑膜瘤虽预后良好,但因解剖复杂且靠近重要神经血管结构,治疗选择困难。当手术不可行时,使用CyberKnife的立体定向放射外科是有效治疗手段,但并非所有患者均获同等疗效。早期识别可能响应的患者仍是临床难题。本研究提出一种基于影像组学与临床特征的预测框架,用于预测接受CyberKnife治疗的颅底脑膜瘤患者的体积反应。不同于多数聚焦无进展生存或复发的研究,本方法以体积反应作为疗效指标。对104例患者的术前MRI图像提取影像组学特征,结合临床变量,采用六种模型进行分析。整个建模过程在嵌套交叉验证框架中完成,确保方法严谨性。其中TabPFN表现最优,AUC达0.81,分类性能稳定。结果表明,在小样本、高维度条件下,先进机器学习架构结合稳健验证策略,可有效捕捉治疗响应相关模式。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Skull-base meningiomas are often characterized by favorable long-term prognosis, yet their anatomical complexity and proximity to critical neurovascular structures make treatment selection challenging. Stereotactic radiosurgery with CyberKnife represents an effective therapeutic option when surgical resection is not feasible; however, not all patients benefit equally from this treatment. Early identification of patients likely to respond to radiosurgery remains an open clinical problem. In this study, we propose a radiomics- and clinical feature-driven framework for predicting volumetric response in skull-base meningiomas treated with CyberKnife. Unlike most existing approaches that focus on progression-free survival or recurrence, our method targets volumetric response as an indicator of treatment efficacy. Pre-treatment MRI images from 104 patients were processed to extract radiomic features, which were combined with clinical variables and analyzed using six models. To ensure methodological rigor, the entire modeling process was implemented within a nested cross-validation scheme. Among the evaluated models, TabPFN achieved the best overall performance, with an AUC of 0.81 and consistently favorable classification metrics. These results suggest that advanced machine learning architectures, when combined with robust validation strategies, can effectively capture patterns associated with treatment response even in small-sample, high-dimensional settings.

影像组学放疗预测脑膜瘤机器学习

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