Radiomic-Based Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Infective Endocarditis in Non-Attenuation Correction [18F]FDG PET/CT Images
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Image Database
2.2. Image Acquisition
2.3. Image Processing and Feature Extraction
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
References
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Feature | Discarded PVE | Confirmed PVE | p-Value | ICC [95% CI] | |
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First order | Entropy | 5.00 ± 0.07 | 5.39 ± 0.03 | 0.003 * | 0.999 [0.999–1.000] |
GLDM | DependenceEntropy | 8.18 ± 0.02 | 8.49 ± 0.02 | 0.003 * | 0.873 [0.767–0.942] |
GLRLM | GrayLevelNonUniformity | 648.90 ± 0.29 | 452.78 ± 0.38 | 0.025 | 0.910 [0.835–0.959] |
RunEntropy | 5.80 ± 0.02 | 6.09 ± 0.03 | 0.003 * | 0.892 [0.802–0.951] | |
NGTDM | Coarseness | 0.0014 ± 0.001 | 0.002 ± 0.35 | 0.028 | 0.962 [0.930–0.983] |
Method | AUC | Accuracy | F1-Score | Precision | Recall | Specificity |
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Logistic Regression | 0.876 * | 0.864 * | 0.863 * | 0.867 * | 0.864 * | 0.864 * |
Neural Network | 0.876 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * |
SVM linear | 0.860 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * |
Decision tree | 0.769 * | 0.682 | 0.681 | 0.683 * | 0.682 | 0.682 |
Random Forest | 0.839 * | 0.818 * | 0.817 * | 0.829 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * |
Naive Bayes | 0.855 * | 0.773 * | 0.768 * | 0.795 * | 0.773 * | 0.773 * |
Gradient Boosting | 0.851 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * |
kNN | 0.835 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * | 0.818 * |
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Palomino-Fernández, D.; Gómez-Grande, A.; P. Seiffert, A.; Bueno, H.; J. Gómez, E.; Sánchez-González, P. Radiomic-Based Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Infective Endocarditis in Non-Attenuation Correction [18F]FDG PET/CT Images. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14062296
Palomino-Fernández D, Gómez-Grande A, P. Seiffert A, Bueno H, J. Gómez E, Sánchez-González P. Radiomic-Based Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Infective Endocarditis in Non-Attenuation Correction [18F]FDG PET/CT Images. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(6):2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14062296
Chicago/Turabian StylePalomino-Fernández, David, Adolfo Gómez-Grande, Alexander P. Seiffert, Héctor Bueno, Enrique J. Gómez, and Patricia Sánchez-González. 2024. "Radiomic-Based Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Infective Endocarditis in Non-Attenuation Correction [18F]FDG PET/CT Images" Applied Sciences 14, no. 6: 2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14062296
APA StylePalomino-Fernández, D., Gómez-Grande, A., P. Seiffert, A., Bueno, H., J. Gómez, E., & Sánchez-González, P. (2024). Radiomic-Based Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Infective Endocarditis in Non-Attenuation Correction [18F]FDG PET/CT Images. Applied Sciences, 14(6), 2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14062296