TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vollmuth, Philipp
AU  - Foltyn, Martha
AU  - Huang, Raymond Y
AU  - Galldiks, Norbert
AU  - Petersen, Jens
AU  - Isensee, Fabian
AU  - van den Bent, Martin J
AU  - Barkhof, Frederik
AU  - Park, Ji Eun
AU  - Park, Yae Won
AU  - Ahn, Sung Soo
AU  - Brugnara, Gianluca
AU  - Meredig, Hagen
AU  - Jain, Rajan
AU  - Smits, Marion
AU  - Pope, Whitney B
AU  - Maier-Hein, Klaus
AU  - Weller, Michael
AU  - Wen, Patrick Y
AU  - Wick, Wolfgang
AU  - Bendszus, Martin
TI  - Artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision support improves reproducibility of tumor response assessment in neuro-oncology: An international multi-reader study
JO  - Neuro-Oncology
VL  - 25
IS  - 3
SN  - 1522-8517
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - FZJ-2022-03304
SP  - 533–543
PY  - 2023
AB  - Background: To assess whether AI-based decision support allows more reproducible and standardized assessment of treatment response on MRI in neuro-oncology as compared to manual 2-dimensional measurements of tumor burden using the RANO criteria.Methods: A series of 30 patients (15 lower-grade gliomas, 15 glioblastoma) with availability of consecutive MRI scans was selected. The time to progression (TTP) on MRI was separately evaluated for each patient by 15 investigators over two rounds. In the 1 st round the TTP was evaluated based on the RANO-criteria, whereas in the 2 nd round the TTP was evaluated by incorporating additional information from AI-enhanced MRI-sequences depicting the longitudinal changes in tumor volumes. The agreement of the TTP-measurements between investigators was evaluated using concordance correlation coefficients (CCC) with confidence intervals (CI) and p-values obtained using bootstrap resampling.Results: The CCC of TTP-measurements between investigators was 0.77 (95%CI=0.69,0.88) with RANO alone and increased to 0.91 (95%CI=0.82,0.95) with AI-based decision support (p=0.005). This effect was significantly greater (p=0.008) for patients with lower-grade gliomas (CCC=0.70 [95%CI=0.56,0.85] without vs. 0.90 [95%CI=0.76,0.95] with AI-based decision support) as compared to glioblastoma (CCC=0.83 [95%CI=0.75,0.92] without vs. 0.86 [95%CI=0.78,0.93] with AI-based decision support). Investigators with less years of experience judged the AI-based decision as more helpful (p=0.02).Conclusions: AI-based decision support has the potential to yield more reproducible and standardized assessment of treatment response in neuro-oncology as compared to manual 2-dimensional measurements of tumor burden, particularly in patients with lower-grade gliomas. A fully-functional version of this AI-based processing pipeline is provided as open-source (https://github.com/NeuroAI-HD/HD-GLIO-XNAT).Keywords: AI-based decision support; RANO; tumor response assessment; tumor volumetry.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 35917833
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000843014300001
DO  - DOI:10.1093/neuonc/noac189
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/909633
ER  -