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Machine learning improves classification of preclinical models of pancreatic cancer with chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI
Author(s) -
Goldenberg Joshua M.,
CárdenasRodríguez Julio,
Pagel Mark D.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.27439
Subject(s) - artificial intelligence , principal component analysis , pancreatic cancer , curse of dimensionality , nuclear magnetic resonance , classifier (uml) , computer science , machine learning , mathematics , physics , cancer , medicine
Purpose We sought to assess whether machine learning‐based classification approaches can improve the classification of pancreatic tumor models relative to more simplistic analysis methods, using T 1 relaxation, CEST, and DCE MRI. Methods The T 1 relaxation time constants, % CEST at five saturation frequencies, and vascular permeability constants from DCE MRI were measured from Hs 766 T, MIA PaCa‐2, and SU.86.86 pancreatic tumor models. We used each of these measurements as predictors for machine learning classifier algorithms. We also used principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of entire CEST spectra and DCE signal evolutions, which were then analyzed using classification methods. Results The T 1 relaxation time constants, % CEST amplitudes at specific saturation frequencies, and the relative K trans and k ep values from DCE MRI could not classify all three tumor types. However, the area under the curve from DCE signal evolutions could classify each tumor type. Principal component analysis was used to analyze the entire CEST spectrum and DCE signal evolutions, which predicted the correct tumor model with 87.5% and 85.1% accuracy, respectively. Conclusions Machine learning applied to the entire CEST spectrum improved the classification of the three tumor models, relative to classifications that used % CEST values at single saturation frequencies. A similar improvement was not attained with machine learning applied to T 1 relaxation times or DCE signal evolutions, relative to more simplistic analysis methods.