Observer- and radiomics model-based computed tomography classification of suppurative versus tuberculous lymphadenitis complicated with nodal necrosis of the neck in children

作者全名："Zhang, Rui; Xu, Ye; Gao, Sijie; Jing, Yang; Li, Wei"

作者地址："[Zhang, Rui; Xu, Ye; Gao, Sijie; Li, Wei] Chongqing Med Univ, Natl Clin Res Ctr Child Hlth & Disorders, Dept Radiol,Childrens Hosp,Chongqing Key Laborator, Minist Educ,Key Lab Child Dev & Disorders,China In, 136 Zhongshan Er Lu, Chongqing 400000, Peoples R China; [Jing, Yang] Huiying Med Technol Co Ltd, Beijing 100192, Peoples R China"

通信作者："Li, W (通讯作者)，Chongqing Med Univ, Natl Clin Res Ctr Child Hlth & Disorders, Dept Radiol,Childrens Hosp,Chongqing Key Laborator, Minist Educ,Key Lab Child Dev & Disorders,China In, 136 Zhongshan Er Lu, Chongqing 400000, Peoples R China."

来源：PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY

ESI学科分类：CLINICAL MEDICINE

WOS号：WOS:001082487900001

JCR分区：Q2

影响因子：2.1

年份：2023

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文献类型：Article; Early Access

关键词：Children; Computed tomography; Imaging; Lymphadenitis; Neck; Purulent infection; Tuberculosis

摘要："Background Computed tomography (CT) can be used for the early detection of lymphadenitis. Radiomics is able to identify a large amount of hidden information from images. However, few CT-based radiomics studies on cervical lymphadenitis in children have been published.Objective This study aimed to investigate the role of visual CT analysis and CT radiomics in differentiating cervical suppurative node necrosis from tuberculous node necrosis in pediatric patients.Materials and methods A total of 101 patients with cervical suppurative lymphadenitis (n=52) or cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis (n=49) were included. Clinical data and CT images were retrieved for analysis. For visual observation, 11 major CT features were identified for univariate and multivariate analyses. For radiomics analysis, image segmentation, feature value extraction, and dimension reduction, feature selection and the construction of radiomics-based models were performed through the RadCloud platform.Results For the visual observation, significant differences were found between the two groups, including the short diameter of the largest necrotic lymph node (P=0.03), sharp border of the node (P=0.02), fusion of nodes (P=0.02), regular silhouette of the necrotic area (P=0.001), multilocular necrotic area (P=0.02), node calcification (P=0.004), and enhancement degree of the nodal nonnecrotic area (P=0.01). No feature was found to be an independent predictor for suppurative or tuberculous lymphadenitis (P>0.05 for all features). Concerning the radiomics analysis, after feature value extraction and dimension reduction, nine related features were selected. The support vector machine classifier achieved high diagnostic performance in distinguishing suppurative from tuberculous lymphadenitis. The area under the curve, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the support vector machine model test set were 0.89 (95% confidence interval: 0.72-1.00), 0.88, 0.78, and 0.90, respectively.Conclusion Compared to observer-based CT image analyses, radiomics model-based CT image analyses exhibit better performance in the differential diagnosis of cervical suppurative and tuberculous lymphadenitis complicated with nodal necrosis in children."

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