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10-26-2024

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This article is the author's final published version in Cancers, Volume 16, Issue 21, November 2024, Article number 3614.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16213614.

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Abstract

(1) Background: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults, with an aggressive disease course that requires accurate prognosis for individualized treatment planning. This study aims to develop and evaluate a radiomics-based machine learning (ML) model to estimate overall survival (OS) for patients with GBM using pre-treatment multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). (2) Methods: The MRI data of 865 patients with GBM were assessed, comprising 499 patients from the UPENN-GBM dataset and 366 patients from the UCSF-PDGM dataset. A total of 14,598 radiomic features were extracted from T1, T1 with contrast, T2, and FLAIR MRI sequences using PyRadiomics. The UPENN-GBM dataset was used for model development (70%) and internal validation (30%), while the UCSF-PDGM dataset served as an external test set. The NGBoost Survival model was developed to generate continuous probability estimates as well as predictions for 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-month OS. (3) Results: The NGBoost Survival model successfully predicted survival, achieving a C-index of 0.801 on internal validation and 0.725 on external validation. For 6-month OS, the model attained an AUROC of 0.791 (95% CI: 0.742-0.832) and 0.708 (95% CI: 0.654-0.748) for internal and external validation, respectively. (4) Conclusions: The radiomics-based ML model demonstrates potential to improve the prediction of OS for patients with GBM.

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