Publications by authors named "Cristina Mantarro"

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of [F]-PSMA-1007 PET in differentiating high- and low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) through a robust radiomics ensemble model. This retrospective study included 143 PCa patients who underwent [F]-PSMA-1007 PET/CT imaging. PCa areas were manually contoured on PET images and 1781 image biomarker standardization initiative (IBSI)-compliant radiomics features were extracted.

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Article Synopsis
  • Radiomics is a developing field in clinical decision-making, facing challenges with standardization, particularly in segmentation methods, which affect reproducibility and robustness of studies.
  • The study examined the effects of three segmentation methods (manual, thresholding, region growing) on radiomics features from PET images of patients, identifying 1781 features, and assessed their reproducibility using the intra class correlation coefficient (ICC).
  • Results indicated that segmentation choice significantly impacts feature reproducibility, with Shape features being the least reproducible, while GLCM features showed the highest consistency, underscoring the need for standardized segmentation approaches in radiomics research.
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Background/aim: Nowadays, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have demonstrated remarkable progress in image-recognition tasks and could be useful for the new concept of precision medicine in order to help physicians in the choice of therapeutic strategies for brain tumours. Previous data suggest that, in the central nervous system (CNS) tumours, amino acid PET may more accurately demarcate the active disease than paramagnetic enhanced MRI, which is currently the standard method of evaluation in brain tumours and helps in the assessment of disease grading, as a fundamental basis for proper clinical patient management. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of ML on 11[C]-MET PET/CT scan images and to propose a radiomics workflow using a machine-learning method to create a predictive model capable of discriminating between low-grade and high-grade CNS tumours.

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