title: Fully automatic GBM segmentation in the TCGA-GBM dataset: Prognosis and correlation with VASARI features.
abstract: Reproducible definition and quantification of imaging biomarkers is essential. We evaluated a fully automatic MR-based segmentation method by comparing it to manually defined sub-volumes by experienced radiologists in the TCGA-GBM dataset, in terms of sub-volume prognosis and association with VASARI features. MRI sets of 109 GBM patients were downloaded from the Cancer Imaging archive. GBM sub-compartments were defined manually and automatically using the Brain Tumor Image Analysis (BraTumIA). Spearman's correlation was used to evaluate the agreement with VASARI features. Prognostic significance was assessed using the C-index. Auto-segmented sub-volumes showed moderate to high agreement with manually delineated volumes (range (r): 0.4 - 0.86). Also, the auto and manual volumes showed similar correlation with VASARI features (auto r = 0.35, 0.43 and 0.36; manual r = 0.17, 0.67, 0.41, for contrast-enhancing, necrosis and edema, respectively). The auto-segmented contrast-enhancing volume and post-contrast abnormal volume showed the highest AUC (0.66, CI: 0.55-0.77 and 0.65, CI: 0.54-0.76), comparable to manually defined volumes (0.64, CI: 0.53-0.75 and 0.63, CI: 0.52-0.74, respectively). BraTumIA and manual tumor sub-compartments showed comparable performance in terms of prognosis and correlation with VASARI features. This method can enable more reproducible definition and quantification of imaging based biomarkers and has potential in high-throughput medical imaging research.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Radiation Oncology and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rios Velazquez
authors.affiliation: Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics , University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: William D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.affiliation: Departments of Radiation Oncology and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.affiliation: Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN), Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Inselspital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wiest
authors.affiliation: Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics , University of Bern, Switzerland.|Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN), Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Inselspital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Gutman
authors.affiliation: Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics , University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.affiliation: Departments of Radiation Oncology and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.|Departments of Radiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.|Department of Biostatistics &Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Hugo J W L
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Aerts
mesh_terms: D066264:Datasets as Topic; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D047368:Tumor Burden