A CT-based radiomics analyses for differentiating drug-resistant and drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis.

Publication date: Nov 12, 2024

To explore the value of computed tomography based radiomics in the differential diagnosis of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. The clinical and computed tomography image data of 177 patients who were diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis through sputum culture and completed drug-susceptibility testing from April 2018 to December 2020 at the Second Hospital of Nanjing were retrospectively analyzed. Patients with drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (n = 78) and drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis (n = 99) were randomly divided into a training set (n = 124) and a validation set (n = 53) at a ratio of 7:3. Regions of interest were drawn to delineate the lesions and radiomics features were extracted from non-contrast computed tomography images. A radiomics signature based on the valuable radiomics features was constructed and a radiomics score was calculated. Demographic data, clinical symptoms, laboratory results and computed tomography imaging characteristics were evaluated to establish a clinical model. Combined with the Rad-score and clinical factors, a radiomics-clinical model nomogram was constructed. Thirteen features were used to construct the radiomics signature. The radiomics signature showed good discrimination in the training set (area under the curve (AUC), 0. 891; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0. 832-0. 951) and the validation set (AUC, 0. 803; 95% CI, 0. 674-0. 932). In the clinical model, the AUC of the training set was 0. 780(95% CI, 0. 700-0. 859), while the AUC of the validation set was 0. 692 (95% CI, 0. 546-0. 839). The radiomics-clinical model showed good calibration and discrimination in the training set (AUC, 0. 932;95% CI, 0. 888-0. 977) and the validation set (AUC, 0. 841; 95% CI, 0. 719-0. 962). Simple radiomics signature is of great value in differentiating drug-sensitive and drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis patients. The radiomics-clinical model nomogram showed good predictive, which may help clinicians formulate precise treatments.

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Concepts Keywords
April Adult
Ct Aged
Nanjing Antitubercular Agents
Radiomics Antitubercular Agents
Tuberculosis Computed tomography
Diagnosis, Differential
Drug-resistant
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nomogram
Nomograms
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Radiomics
Radiomics
Retrospective Studies
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Young Adult

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH pulmonary tuberculosis
disease IDO susceptibility
pathway REACTOME Reproduction
drug DRUGBANK Coenzyme M
disease IDO drug susceptibility
disease MESH Tuberculosis
pathway KEGG Tuberculosis
disease MESH infection
drug DRUGBANK Rifampicin
drug DRUGBANK Trestolone
drug DRUGBANK Ademetionine
disease MESH adenocarcinoma
disease MESH tuberculous pleurisy
disease MESH lung cancer
disease MESH lung diseases
disease MESH AIDS
disease IDO history
disease IDO blood
disease IDO bacteria
disease MESH breath holding
disease MESH emphysema
disease MESH atelectasis
disease MESH bronchiectasis
disease MESH fibrosis
disease MESH pleural effusion
disease MESH Tuberculosis Multidrug-Resistant

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