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    Bernatz, Simon; Elenberger, Oleg; Ackermann, Jörg; Lenga, Lukas; Martin, Simon S; Scholtz, Jan-Erik; Koch, Vitali; Grünewald, Leon D; Herrmann, Yannis; Kinzler, Maximilian N; Stehle, Angelika; Koch, Ina; Zeuzem, Stefan; Bankov, Katrin; Doering, Claudia; Reis, Henning; Flinner, Nadine; Schulze, Falko; Wild, Peter J; Hammerstingl, Renate; Eichler, Katrin; Gruber-Rouh, Tatjana; Vogl, Thomas J; Dos Santos, Daniel Pinto; Mahmoudi, Scherwin

    Scientific reports, 01/2023, Letnik: 13, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We aimed to identify hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients who will respond to repetitive transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) to improve the treatment algorithm. Retrospectively, 61 patients (mean age, 65.3 years ± 10.0 SD; 49 men) with 94 HCC mRECIST target-lesions who had three consecutive TACE between 01/2012 and 01/2020 were included. Robust and non-redundant radiomics features were extracted from the 24 h post-embolization CT. Five different clinical TACE-scores were assessed. Seven different feature selection methods and machine learning models were used. Radiomics, clinical and combined models were built to predict response to TACE on a lesion-wise and patient-wise level as well as its impact on overall-survival prognostication. 29 target-lesions of 19 patients were evaluated in the test set. Response rates were 37.9% (11/29) on the lesion-level and 42.1% (8/19) on the patient-level. Radiomics top lesion-wise response prognostications was AUC 0.55-0.67. Clinical scores revealed top AUCs of 0.65-0.69. The best working model combined the radiomic feature LargeDependenceHighGrayLevelEmphasis and the clinical score mHAP_II_score_group with AUC = 0.70, accuracy = 0.72. We transferred this model on a patient-level to achieve AUC = 0.62, CI = 0.41-0.83. The two radiomics-clinical features revealed overall-survival prognostication of C-index = 0.67. In conclusion, a random forest model using the radiomic feature LargeDependenceHighGrayLevelEmphasis and the clinical mHAP-II-score-group seems promising for TACE response prognostication.