Early Response Assessment in Lung Cancer Patients using Spatio-temporal CBCT Images

We report a model to predict patient's radiological response to curative radiation therapy (RT) for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cone-Beam Computed Tomography images acquired weekly during the six-week course of RT were contoured with the Gross Tumor Volume (GTV) by senior radiation oncologists for 53 patients (7 images per patient). Deformable registration of the images yielded six deformation fields for each pair of consecutive images per patient. Jacobian of a field provides a measure of local expansion/contraction and is used in our model. Delineations were compared post-registration to compute unchanged (U), newly grown (G), and reduced (R) regions within GTV. The mean Jacobian of these regions μ_U, μ_G and μ_R are statistically compared and a response assessment model is proposed. A good response is hypothesized if μ_R < 1.0, μ_R < μ_U, and μ_G < μ_U. For early prediction of post-treatment response, first, three weeks' images are used. Our model predicted clinical response with a precision of 74%. Using reduction in CT numbers (CTN) and percentage GTV reduction as features in logistic regression, yielded an area-under-curve of 0.65 with p=0.005. Combining logistic regression model with the proposed hypothesis yielded an odds ratio of 20.0 (p=0.0).

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