Pancreatic cancer, Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence: A Review.

Autores de IIS La Fe

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  Luis Martí Bonmatí

  Autor

• Leonor Cerdá Alberich

  Autor

• Roberto Pedro Díaz Beveridge

  Autor

• Eva María Montalvá Orón

  Autor

• Judith Pérez Rojas

  Autor

• Ángel Alberich Bayarri

  Autor

Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

• Pérez-Girbés A

Grupos

• Hepatología, Cirugia Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplantes

  

  Leader

  Marina Berenguer Haym

• Investigacion Biomédica en Imagen (GIBI 2-30)

  Investigador Principal

  Leonor Cerdá Alberich

• Investigación Clínica y Traslacional en Cáncer

  

  Leader

  José Gómez Codina

Abstract

Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are generally classified into four categories based on contrast-enhanced CT at diagnosis: resectable, borderline resectable, unresectable, and metastatic disease. In the initial grading and staging of PDAC, structured radiological templates are useful but limited, as there is a need to define the aggressiveness and microscopic disease stage of these tumours to ensure adequate treatment allocation. Quantitative imaging analysis allows radiomics and dynamic imaging features to provide information of clinical outcomes, and to construct clinical models based on radiomics signatures or imaging phenotypes. These quantitative features may be used as prognostic and predictive biomarkers in clinical decision-making, enabling personalised management of advanced PDAC. Deep learning and convolutional neural networks also provide high level bioinformatics tools that can help define features associated with a given aspect of PDAC biology and aggressiveness, paving the way to define outcomes based on these features. Thus, the prediction of tumour phenotype, treatment response and patient prognosis may be feasible by using such comprehensive and integrated radiomics models. Despite these promising results, quantitative imaging is not ready for clinical implementation in PDAC. Limitations include the instability of metrics and lack of external validation. Large properly annotated datasets, including relevant semantic features (demographics, blood markers, genomics), image harmonisation, robust radiomics analysis, clinically significant tasks as outputs, comparisons with gold-standards (such as TNM or pretreatment classifications) and fully independent validation cohorts, will be required for the development of trustworthy radiomics and artificial intelligence solutions to predict PDAC aggressiveness in a clinical setting.

Keywords

• CT-BASED RADIOMICS; DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA; IMAGING BIOMARKERS; FEATURES; CHALLENGES; MODEL