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Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Purpose: Pre-operative assessment of thoracic lymphonodal (LN) involvement in patients with lung cancer (LC) is crucial when choosing the treatment modality. Visual assessment of F-18-FDG-PET/CT (PET/CT) is well established, however, there is still a need for prospective quantitative data to differe...

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Autores principales: Genseke, Philipp, Wielenberg, Christoph Ferdinand, Schreiber, Jens, Luecke, Eva, Frese, Steffen, Walles, Thorsten, Kreissl, Michael Christoph
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10093566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37046481
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13071263
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author Genseke, Philipp
Wielenberg, Christoph Ferdinand
Schreiber, Jens
Luecke, Eva
Frese, Steffen
Walles, Thorsten
Kreissl, Michael Christoph
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Wielenberg, Christoph Ferdinand
Schreiber, Jens
Luecke, Eva
Frese, Steffen
Walles, Thorsten
Kreissl, Michael Christoph
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description Purpose: Pre-operative assessment of thoracic lymphonodal (LN) involvement in patients with lung cancer (LC) is crucial when choosing the treatment modality. Visual assessment of F-18-FDG-PET/CT (PET/CT) is well established, however, there is still a need for prospective quantitative data to differentiate benign from malignant lesions which would simplify staging and guide the further implementation of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). Methods: In this prospective study, 37 patients with confirmed lung cancer (m/f = 24/13; age: 70 [52–83] years) were analyzed. All patients underwent PET/CT and quantitative data (standardized uptake values) were obtained. Histological results were available for 101 thoracic lymph nodes. Quantitative data were matched to determine cut-off values for delineation between benign vs. malignant lymph nodes. Furthermore, a scoring system derived from these cut-off values was established. Statistical analyses were performed through ROC analysis. Results: Quantitative analysis revealed the optimal cut-off values (p < 0.01) for the differentiation between benign and malignant thoracic lymph nodes in patients suffering from lung cancer. The respective areas under the curve (AUC) ranged from 0.86 to 0.94. The highest AUC for a ratio of lymph node to healthy lung tissue was 0.94. The resulting accuracy ranged from 78.2% to 89.1%. A dedicated scoring system led to an AUC of 0.93 with a negative predictive value of 95.4%. Conclusion: Quantitative analysis of F-18-FDG-PET/CT data provides reliable results for delineation between benign and malignant thoracic lymph nodes. Thus, quantitative parameters can improve diagnostic accuracy and reliability and can also facilitate the handling of the steadily increasing number of clinical examinations.
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spelling pubmed-100935662023-04-13 Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Genseke, Philipp Wielenberg, Christoph Ferdinand Schreiber, Jens Luecke, Eva Frese, Steffen Walles, Thorsten Kreissl, Michael Christoph Diagnostics (Basel) Article Purpose: Pre-operative assessment of thoracic lymphonodal (LN) involvement in patients with lung cancer (LC) is crucial when choosing the treatment modality. Visual assessment of F-18-FDG-PET/CT (PET/CT) is well established, however, there is still a need for prospective quantitative data to differentiate benign from malignant lesions which would simplify staging and guide the further implementation of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). Methods: In this prospective study, 37 patients with confirmed lung cancer (m/f = 24/13; age: 70 [52–83] years) were analyzed. All patients underwent PET/CT and quantitative data (standardized uptake values) were obtained. Histological results were available for 101 thoracic lymph nodes. Quantitative data were matched to determine cut-off values for delineation between benign vs. malignant lymph nodes. Furthermore, a scoring system derived from these cut-off values was established. Statistical analyses were performed through ROC analysis. Results: Quantitative analysis revealed the optimal cut-off values (p < 0.01) for the differentiation between benign and malignant thoracic lymph nodes in patients suffering from lung cancer. The respective areas under the curve (AUC) ranged from 0.86 to 0.94. The highest AUC for a ratio of lymph node to healthy lung tissue was 0.94. The resulting accuracy ranged from 78.2% to 89.1%. A dedicated scoring system led to an AUC of 0.93 with a negative predictive value of 95.4%. Conclusion: Quantitative analysis of F-18-FDG-PET/CT data provides reliable results for delineation between benign and malignant thoracic lymph nodes. Thus, quantitative parameters can improve diagnostic accuracy and reliability and can also facilitate the handling of the steadily increasing number of clinical examinations. MDPI 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10093566/ /pubmed/37046481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13071263 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Genseke, Philipp
Wielenberg, Christoph Ferdinand
Schreiber, Jens
Luecke, Eva
Frese, Steffen
Walles, Thorsten
Kreissl, Michael Christoph
Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
title Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
title_full Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
title_fullStr Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
title_short Prospective Evaluation of Quantitative F-18-FDG-PET/CT for Pre-Operative Thoracic Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Lung Cancer as a Target for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
title_sort prospective evaluation of quantitative f-18-fdg-pet/ct for pre-operative thoracic lymph node staging in patients with lung cancer as a target for computer-aided diagnosis
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10093566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37046481
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13071263
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