A machine learning–based multidimensional model integrating clinical, radiomics, and cell-free DNA methylation biomarkers for the classification of pulmonary nodules.

Authors

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Wenhua Liang

Department of Thoracic Surgery/Esophageal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Wenhua Liang , Bo Wang , Jinsheng Tao , Minhua Peng , Xixiang Tu , Xiangcheng Qiu , Yang Yang , Zhujia Ye , Zhiwei Chen , Jianbing Fan , Jianxing He

Organizations

Department of Thoracic Surgery/Esophageal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, AnchorDx Medical Co., Ltd, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, AnchorDx, Inc., Fremont, CA, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Research Funding

Other
Funding China National Science Foundation (Grant No. 82022048, 81871893), Key Project of Guangzhou Scentific Research Project (Grant No. 201804020030)

Background: Patients with pulmonary nodules undergoing excessive invasive procedures is a pressing clinical problem. We sought to develop a noninvasive, machine learning-based multidimensional tool combining clinical, radiomic, and cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation biomarkers for improving accuracy of pulmonary nodules classification. Methods: This prospectively collected and retrospective blinded evaluation trial enrolled a total of 1,276 subjects at 24 hospitals in China. All patients with a 5-30 mm pulmonary nodule at high risk of lung cancer had undergone surgical resection with definitive pathological diagnosis. Clinical information, preoperative peripheral blood, and chest CT scans were collected. The regions of interest (ROIs) containing target nodule on the CT images were automatically segmented by a deep-learning based model. 2,153 radiomics features were extracted from ROIs using PyRadiomics. Based on clinical and radiomics features, four classification models were constructed using LightGBM, Lasso, Random Forest, and Logistic Regression algorithms. Subsequently, the predicted probabilities of the above four models were averaged to obtain a final score of the combined clinical and radiomic biomarkers model (CRBM) in a training set (n=797). Then we integrated CRBM model with our previously established cfDNA methylation model (PulmoSeek; DOI: 10.1172/JCI145973) to create a new combined model using logistic regression (n=201), PulmoSeek Plus V2.0, and verified it independently (n =278). The ROC curves were compared to evaluate the diagnostic performance among the CRBM, PulmoSeek, and PulmoSeek Plus V2.0 model, pathologic diagnosis as the gold standard. Results: The CRBM model achieved AUCs of 0.81(95%CI 0.73-0.90) and 0.80 (0.74-0.86) in the two validation sets (n1=201, n2=278), respectively. In the training set (n=201) and validation set (n=278), the PulmoSeek Plus V2.0 obtained AUCs of 0.93 (0.90-0.97) and 0.91 (0.88-0.95), and accuracies of 0.89 (0.84-0.93) and 0.84 (0.79-0.88), respectively. In the combined set (n=479), when compared with CRBM and PulmoSeek, PulmoSeek Plus V2.0 yielded improved AUCs of 11% and 6%, and accuracies of 6% and 3%, respectively. PulmoSeek Plus V2.0 model for rule-out at the fixed specificity of 50%, had an overall sensitivity of 0.98 (0.96-0.99), PPV of 0.86 (0.82-0.89), and NPV of 0.998 (0.988-1.000, at 5% prevalence). It maintains good diagnostic performance in early-stage lung cancer (0-I, n=328) and 5-10 mm nodules (n=92), with sensitivities of 0.98 (0.96-0.99) and 0.98 (0.92-0.99), respectively. Conclusions: PulmoSeek Plus V2.0, as a novel machine learning-based multidimensional model, improves the accuracy of pulmonary nodules classification, and potentially reduces the unnecessary invasive procedures among individuals with benign nodules. Clinical trial information: NCT03181490, NCT03651986.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Developmental Therapeutics—Molecularly Targeted Agents and Tumor Biology

Track

Developmental Therapeutics—Molecularly Targeted Agents and Tumor Biology

Sub Track

Molecular Diagnostics and Imaging

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT03181490, NCT03651986

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 3070)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.3070

Abstract #

3070

Poster Bd #

268

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