用灌注动态信息提升脑胶质瘤分子分型准确率
Hierarchical Perfusion Graphs for Tumor Heterogeneity Modeling in Glioma Molecular Subtyping

- 将灌注MRI信号转为离散代码,构建分层图结构表征肿瘤功能区域
- 在内部数据上对IDH分型达AUC 0.96,外部验证仍保持AUC 0.89
- 结果与病理生理一致,适合临床影像辅助诊断研究者使用
精确的胶质瘤分子分型(如IDH突变和1p/19q共缺失)直接影响手术与治疗决策,但现有方法依赖有创组织采样。基于结构MRI的深度学习提供了非侵入性替代方案,但仅依赖解剖信息无法捕捉区分分子亚型的血流动力学特征。基于动态敏感度对比(DSC)MRI的放射基因组学虽具潜力,但受多中心差异和体素级分析局限阻碍临床应用。本文提出HiPerfGNN框架:首先用向量量化变分自编码器(VQ-VAE)从原始时间-强度曲线中学习离散灌注表示,生成粗粒度图节点,代表功能肿瘤微环境;再结合结构MRI分层细化为细粒度子区域;最后通过分层图神经网络跨尺度传播信息实现分子预测。在内部队列(n=475)中,模型对IDH、1p/19q及WHO分级的AUC分别为0.96、0.89、0.84;在独立外部队列(n=397)中,IDH预测保持AUC 0.89且无需重校准。梯度显著性分析显示注意力模式与已知胶质瘤病理生理相符。结果证明整合灌注动态信息可显著提升放射基因组学的分子分型能力。代码见https://github.com/janghana/HiPerfGNN。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Precise molecular subtyping of gliomas, including isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation and 1p/19q codeletion, directly guides surgical and therapeutic decisions, yet currently relies on invasive tissue sampling. Deep learning on structural MRI has emerged as a non-invasive alternative, but anatomy-only approaches cannot capture the hemodynamic signatures that distinguish molecular subtypes. Radiogenomics based on dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI holds immense potential for non-invasively characterizing glioma molecular subtypes, yet clinical deployment has been hindered by inter-site variability and the limitations of voxel-wise analysis. We introduce HiPerfGNN, a framework that first learns discrete hemodynamic representations from raw time-intensity curves using a vector-quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE). These quantized perfusion codes define coarse-level graph nodes representing functional tumor habitats, each of which is hierarchically subdivided into fine-level subregions guided by structural MRI. A hierarchical graph neural network then propagates information across scales for molecular prediction. On an internal cohort (n=475), the model achieved AUCs of 0.96 (IDH), 0.89 (1p/19q), and 0.84 (WHO grade), and maintained robust IDH performance (AUC 0.89) on an independent external cohort (n=397) without recalibration. Gradient-based saliency analysis confirms biologically grounded attention patterns aligned with known glioma pathophysiology. Our results demonstrate the added value of integrating perfusion dynamics into radiogenomic pipelines for glioma molecular subtyping. Code is available at https://github.com/janghana/HiPerfGNN.
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