Post-Surgery Glioma Growth Modeling from Magnetic Resonance Images for Patients with Treatment

Reaction diffusion is the most common growth modelling methodology due to its simplicity and consistency with the biological tumor growth process. However, current extensions of the reaction diffusion model lack one or more of the following: efficient inclusion of treatments’ effects, taking into ac...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2017-04, Vol.7 (1), p.1222-13, Article 1222
Main Authors: Elazab, Ahmed, Bai, Hongmin, Abdulazeem, Yousry M., Abdelhamid, Talaat, Zhou, Sijie, Wong, Kelvin K. L., Hu, Qingmao
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biometry
Brain tumors
Chemotherapy
Computer Simulation
Diffusion models
Glioma
Glioma - pathology
Glioma - surgery
Heterogeneity
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Models, Biological
multidisciplinary
Neuroimaging
Patients
Radiation therapy
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Surgery
Viscoelasticity
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Summary:Reaction diffusion is the most common growth modelling methodology due to its simplicity and consistency with the biological tumor growth process. However, current extensions of the reaction diffusion model lack one or more of the following: efficient inclusion of treatments’ effects, taking into account the viscoelasticity of brain tissues, and guaranteed stability of the numerical solution. We propose a new model to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks. Guided by directional information derived from diffusion tensor imaging, our model relates tissue heterogeneity with the absorption of the chemotherapy, adopts the linear-quadratic term to simulate the radiotherapy effect, employs Maxwell-Weichert model to incorporate brain viscoelasticity, and ensures the stability of the numerical solution. The performance is verified through experiments on synthetic and real MR images. Experiments on 9 MR datasets of patients with low grade gliomas undergoing surgery with different treatment regimens are carried out and validated using Jaccard score and Dice coefficient. The growth simulation accuracies of the proposed model are in ranges of [0.673 0.822] and [0.805 0.902] for Jaccard scores and Dice coefficients, respectively. The accuracies decrease up to 4% and 2.4% when ignoring treatment effects and the tensor information, while brain viscoelasticity has no significant impact on the accuracies.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-01189-2