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In this study, we investigated the application of artificial neural networks (ANNs) with composite architectures into the prediction of local control (LC) of lung cancer patients after radiotherapy. The motivation of this study was to take advantage of the temporal associations among longitudinal (sequential) data to improve the predictive performance of outcome models under the circumstance of limited sample sizes. Two composite architectures: (1) a one dimension (1D) convolutional + fully connected and (2) a locally-connected+ fully connected architectures were implemented for this purpose. Compared with the fully-connected architecture (multi-layer perceptron [MLP]), our composite architectures yielded better predictive performance of LC in lung cancer patients who received radiotherapy. Specifically, in a cohort of 98 patients (29 patients failed locally), the composite architecture of 1D convolutional layers and fully-connected layers achieved an AUC (area under receiver operating characteristic curve) of 0.83 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.807~0.841) with 18 features (14 features are longitudinal data). Whereas, the composite architecture of locally- connected layers and fully-connected layers achieved an AUC of 0.80 (95%CI: 0.775~0.811). Both outperformed an MLP in the prediction performance with the same set of features, which achieved an AUC of 0.78 (95%CI: 0.751~0.790); (P-values for differences in AUC using the DeLong tests were 1.609 × 10 -14 and 1.407 × 10 -4 , respectively).

Artificial Neural Network With Composite Architectures for Prediction of Local Control in Radiotherapy