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Radiogenomics in Medulloblastoma: Can the Human Brain Compete with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
  
    	
A. Dasgupta and T. Gupta

  
    	
American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2019,  40 (5) E24-E25; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A6040 

  
  
  



  


  
  



  
      
  
  

    
We read with keen interest “MR Imaging-Based Radiomic Signatures of Distinct Molecular Subgroups of Medulloblastoma” published recently in your prestigious journal.1 We would like to congratulate the authors for their multi-institutional collaborative study wherein radiomic features extracted from MR imaging coupled with machine learning led to the prediction of molecular subgroups in medulloblastoma. Recently, it has become increasing possible to extract meaningful information beyond staging from diagnostic imaging (radiophenotypes) for correlation with genomic data and molecular markers (molecular phenotypes), leading to the exciting and emerging field of radiogenomics.2,3 The introduction of computer-based algorithms (including artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches) has not only refined the assessment of semantic features but also allows simultaneous extraction of agnostic features (histograms, textures, wavelets, and fractal dimensions), which generally go beyond the limited capabilities of the human brain. Such automated high-throughput processing of big data significantly reduces time and virtually eliminates interobserver variability.
In the referenced study, Iv et al,1 extracted 590 radiomic features such as intensity-based histograms, tumor-edge sharpness, Gabor features, and local area integral invariant features from T1- and T2-weighted MR imaging in a multi-institutional cohort of 109 children with medulloblastoma and used support vector machine algorithms to identify the 4 molecular subgroups: wingless (WNT), sonic hedgehog (SHH), group 3, and group 4, respectively. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed better performance of the double 10-fold cross-validation model for predicting SHH, group 3, and group 4 medulloblastoma using a combination of T1- and T2-weighted images as demonstrated by high area under the curve (AUC) values. The independent 3-dataset cross-validation strategy demonstrated acceptably high predictive accuracy of select radiomic features for SHH and group 4 medulloblastoma.
Most interesting, we had also reported similar results4 in a single-institution cohort of 111 patients with medulloblastoma, which, surprisingly, was not even cited by the authors. In our study, preoperative multiparametric MR imaging (primarily T1- and T2-weighted sequences including postcontrast images) was rigorously evaluated visually by a multidisciplinary team of radiologists and clinicians (blinded to molecular subgrouping) to document and categorize a set of 13 predefined semantic imaging features and assign a probable molecular subgroup. Two-thirds of patients were chosen randomly from individual subgroups to form the training cohort, while the remaining one-third constituted the validation cohort. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed in the training cohort to identify imaging features with the highest discrimination of 1 subgroup from the other 3 subgroups to construct subgroup-specific binary nomograms, which were subsequently tested in the validation cohort. Predictive accuracy of subgroup-specific nomograms was defined by AUC on ROC analysis, which was highest for the SHH subgroup followed by group 4 medulloblastoma. Group 3 and WNT subgroup nomograms had suboptimal and unacceptable accuracy.
A comparison of the predictive accuracy of MR imaging features (radiomic versus semantic) for molecular subgrouping of medulloblastoma is presented in the Table. A somewhat similar (if not better) performance of the human brain compared with computer-based algorithms via artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches, though somewhat intriguing, is quite reassuring and encouraging. Neither radiomic nor semantic MR imaging features identified the WNT pathway (best survival) and group 3 medulloblastoma (worst survival) robustly and accurately, posing considerable challenges in adopting imaging biomarkers in contemporary neuro-oncologic practice. However, we do believe that the inclusion of advanced and additional MR imaging sequences like diffusion-weighted imaging, gradient-echo, and spectroscopy, coupled with further technologic refinement of advanced machine-classifier tools could potentially further improve the predictive accuracy of such radiogenomic correlation.
View this table:
Comparison of predictive accuracy defined as AUC on ROC analyses reported in the 2 studies1,4
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