Deep learning and radiomics-based approach to meningioma grading: exploring the potential value of peritumoral edema regions.

Journal: Physics in medicine and biology
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Abstract

To address the challenge of meningioma grading, this study aims to investigate the potential value of peritumoral edema (PTE) regions and proposes a unique approach that integrates radiomics and deep learning techniques.The primary focus is on developing a transfer learning-based meningioma feature extraction model (MFEM) that leverages both vision transformer (ViT) and convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures. Additionally, the study explores the significance of the PTE region in enhancing the grading process.The proposed method demonstrates excellent grading accuracy and robustness on a dataset of 98 meningioma patients. It achieves an accuracy of 92.86%, precision of 93.44%, sensitivity of 95%, and specificity of 89.47%.This study provides valuable insights into preoperative meningioma grading by introducing an innovative method that combines radiomics and deep learning techniques. The approach not only enhances accuracy but also reduces observer subjectivity, thereby contributing to improved clinical decision-making processes.

Authors

  • Zhuo Zhang
  • Ying Miao
    College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China.
  • Jixuan Wu
  • Xiaochen Zhang
    School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.
  • Quanfeng Ma
    Tianjin Cerebral Vascular and Neural Degenerative Disease Key Laboratory, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin, 300350, People's Republic of China.
  • Hua Bai
    Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi'an Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE) and Xi'an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, P. R. China.
  • Qiang Gao
    Faculty of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China.