用多尺度影像组学分析盆腔MRI,发现内异症分型有初步信号但易受数据异质性干扰。
Multi-scale radiomics in pelvic MRI for endometriosis subtyping: highlighting data heterogeneity constraints

- 从子宫卵巢区域提取多尺度影像特征,结合梯度提升分类器进行分型
- 最优模型AUC达0.80但特异性低,存在较多假阳性
- 数据异质性强时,后处理校正无效,小样本多中心数据难建模
分析女性盆腔MRI对评估内异症极具挑战,因解剖复杂、技术差异和阅片者间变异影响视觉特征。本文基于公开的UT-EndoMRI数据集,评估基于影像组学的患者级内异症分型方法。从手动分割的子宫与卵巢区域提取影像组学特征,比较多种多尺度特征表示与特征选择策略。使用监督分类器区分是否存在至少一个内异症囊肿的患者,同时通过无监督扰动分析检验影像组学谱是否揭示可重复的患者亚群。最佳监督性能由原始小波特征与梯度提升分类器实现,AUC为0.80。然而该模型产生多个假阳性,导致特异性较低。ComBat校正未能持续提升性能,表明在小规模、多中心队列中,事后校正不足以克服采集组样本过少的问题。无监督聚类分析识别出可重复但分离度差的分组,仍与采集变量相关。总体结果提示盆腔MRI影像组学具有内异症分型的初步信号,同时凸显小样本多中心数据下影像组学分型的脆弱性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Analyzing female pelvic MRIs is challenging, especially for evaluating endometriosis, where visual features are influenced by several factors, including anatomical complexity, technical variability, and inter-reader variability. Here, we evaluate a radiomics-based pipeline for patient-level endometriosis subtyping using the publicly available UT-EndoMRI dataset. We extract radiomics features from manually segmented uterine and ovarian regions and compare several multi-scale feature representations and feature-selection strategies. We train supervised classifiers to distinguish patients with at least one endometrioma from those without, and perform an unsupervised perturbation analysis to assess whether radiomics profiles reveal reproducible patient subgroups. The best supervised performance is achieved using raw Wavelet-derived features and a Gradient Boosting classifier, yielding an AUC of 0.80. However, this model produces several false positives, resulting in low specificity. ComBat harmonization does not consistently improve performance, suggesting that post hoc harmonization is insufficient in a small, multi-site cohort in which acquisition groups contained very few patients. Using an unsupervised clustering analysis, we identify reproducible but poorly separated partitions that remain associated with acquisition variables. Overall, these results suggest that pelvic MRI radiomics contain a preliminary signal for endometriosis subtyping, while highlighting the fragility of radiomics-based subtyping in small, multi-site datasets.
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