Reproducibility of Segmentation-based Myocardial Radiomic Features with Cardiac MRI
- 1 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging
- Vol. 2 (3), e190216
- https://doi.org/10.1148/ryct.2020190216
Abstract
Purpose To investigate reproducibility of myocardial radiomic features with cardiac MRI. Materials and Methods Test-retest studies were performed with a 3-T MRI system using commonly used cardiac MRI sequences of cine balanced steady-state free precession (cine bSSFP), T1-weighted and T2-weighted imaging, and quantitative T1 and T2 mapping in phantom experiments and 10 healthy participants (mean ± standard deviation age, 29 years ± 13). In addition, this study assessed repeatability in 51 patients (56 years ± 14) who underwent imaging twice during the same session. Three readers independently delineated the myocardium to investigate inter- and intraobserver reproducibility of radiomic features. A total of 1023 radiomic features were extracted by using PyRadiomics (https://pyradiomics.readthedocs.io/) with 11 image filters and six feature families. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was estimated to assess reproducibility and repeatability, and features with ICCs greater than or equal to 0.8 were considered reproducible. Results Different reproducibility patterns were observed among sequences in in vivo test-retest studies. In cine bSSFP, the gray-level run-length matrix was the most reproducible feature family, and the wavelet low-pass filter applied horizontally and vertically was the most reproducible image filter. In T1 and T2 maps, intensity-based statistics (first-order) and gray-level co-occurrence matrix features were the most reproducible feature families, without a dominant reproducible image filter. Across all sequences, gray-level nonuniformity was the most frequently identified reproducible feature name. In inter- and intraobserver reproducibility studies, respectively, only 32%–47% and 61%–73% of features were identified as reproducible. Conclusion Only a small subset of myocardial radiomic features was reproducible, and these reproducible radiomic features varied among different sequences. Supplemental material is available for this article. Keywords: Cardiac, Cardiomyopathies, Computer Applications-General (Informatics), Heart, Imaging Sequences, MR-Imaging © RSNA, 2020 See also the commentary by Leiner in this issue.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (R01HL129185-01, R01HL129157, 1R01HL127015)
- American Heart Association Established Investigator Award (15EIA22710040)
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