Multifaceted radiomics for distant metastasis prediction in head & neck cancer.

Multifaceted radiomics for distant metastasis prediction in head & neck cancer. Phys Med Biol. 2020 Apr 15;: Authors: Zhou Z, Wang K, Folkert MR, Liu H, Jiang SB, Sher D, Wang J Abstract Accurately predicting distant metastasis in head & neck cancer has the potential to improve patient survival by allowing early treatment intensification with systemic therapy for high-risk patients. By extracting large amounts of quantitative features and mining them, radiomics has achieved success in predicting treatment outcomes for various diseases. However, there are several challenges associated with conventional radiomic approaches, including: 1) how to optimally combine information extracted from multiple modalities; 2) how to construct models emphasizing different objectives for different clinical applications; and 3) how to utilize and fuse output obtained by multiple classifiers. To overcome these challenges, we propose a unified model termed as multifaceted radiomics (M-radiomics). In M-radiomics, a deep learning with stacked sparse autoencoder is first utilized to fuse features extracted from different modalities into one representation feature set. A multi-objective optimization model is then introduced into M-radiomics where probability- based objective functions are designed to maximize the similarity between the probability output and the true label vector. Finally, M-radiomics employs multiple base classifiers to get a divers...
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