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In vivoevaluation of EGFRvIII mutation in primary glioblastoma patients via complex multiparametric MRI signature
Author(s) -
Hamed Akbari,
Spyridon Bakas,
Jared Pisapia,
MacLean P. Nasrallah,
Martin Rozycki,
María Martínez-Lage,
Jennifer J.D. Morrissette,
Nadia Dahmane,
Donald M. O’Rourke,
Christos Davatzikos
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
neuro-oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.005
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1523-5866
pISSN - 1522-8517
DOI - 10.1093/neuonc/noy033
Subject(s) - in vivo , epidermal growth factor receptor , glioblastoma , mutation , computational biology , cancer research , pathology , cancer , biology , medicine , genetics , gene
Epidermal growth factor receptor variant III (EGFRvIII) is a driver mutation and potential therapeutic target in glioblastoma. Non-invasive in vivo EGFRvIII determination, using clinically acquired multiparametric MRI sequences, could assist in assessing spatial heterogeneity related to EGFRvIII, currently not captured via single-specimen analyses. We hypothesize that integration of subtle, yet distinctive, quantitative imaging/radiomic patterns using machine learning may lead to non-invasively determining molecular characteristics, and particularly the EGFRvIII mutation.

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