Accurate classification of childhood brain tumours by in vivo 1H MRS-A multi-centre study

Javier Vicente, Elies Fuster-Garcia, Salvador Tortajada, Juan M. García-Gómez, Nigel Davies, Kal Natarajan, Martin Wilson, Richard G. Grundy, Pieter Wesseling, Daniel Monleón, Bernardo Celda, Montserrat Robles, Andrew C. Peet

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Aims: To evaluate the accuracy of single-voxel Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H MRS) as a non-invasive diagnostic aid for paediatric brain tumours in a multi-national study. Our hypotheses are (1) that automated classification based on 1H MRS provides an accurate non-invasive diagnosis in multi-centre datasets and (2) using a protocol which increases the metabolite information improves the diagnostic accuracy. Methods: Seventy-eight patients under 16 years old with histologically proven brain tumours from 10 international centres were investigated. Discrimination of 29 medulloblastomas, 11 ependymomas and 38 pilocytic astrocytomas (PILOAs) was evaluated. Single-voxel MRS was undertaken prior to diagnosis (1.5 T Point-Resolved Spectroscopy (PRESS), Proton Brain Exam (PROBE) or Stimulated Echo Acquisition Mode (STEAM), echo time (TE) 20-32 ms and 135-136 ms). MRS data were processed using two strategies, determination of metabolite concentrations using TARQUIN software and automatic feature extraction with Peak Integration (PI). Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) was applied to this data to produce diagnostic classifiers. An evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy was performed based on resampling to measure the Balanced Accuracy Rate (BAR). Results: The accuracy of the diagnostic classifiers for discriminating the three tumour types was found to be high (BAR 0.98) when a combination of TE was used. The combination of both TEs significantly improved the classification performance (p < 0.01, Tukey's test) compared with the use of one TE alone. Other tumour types were classified accurately as glial or primitive neuroectodermal (BAR 1.00). Conclusion: 1H MRS has excellent accuracy for the non-invasive diagnosis of common childhood brain tumours particularly if the metabolite information is maximised and should become part of routine clinical assessment for these children.

Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)658-667
Aantal pagina's10
TijdschriftEuropean Journal of Cancer
Volume49
Nummer van het tijdschrift3
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - feb. 2013
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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