影像组学驱动的肿瘤内异质性评估

Radiomics‑driven assessment of intratumoral heterogeneity

  • 摘要: 肿瘤内异质性是实体瘤的关键特征,主要包括克隆异质性、空间异质性和时间异质性,是影响肿瘤生长增殖、侵袭转移和治疗敏感度的重要因素,与肿瘤患者的不良预后密切相关。近年来针对肿瘤内异质性的评估有了长足进展,但早期、无创地实现肿瘤内异质性评估仍缺乏有效手段。影像组学通过计算机技术从肿瘤影像中提取特征,提供定量分析,具有非侵入性和系统性剖析的优势。其在肿瘤异质性的早期诊断、疗效预测、预后评估等方面显示出巨大潜力,通过联合多种机器学习和深度学习建模分析,可为肿瘤内异质性相关的临床决策提供重要参考与支持。此外,影像组学联合其他组学,可为解析宏观现象与微观生物学之间的联系提供新视角。笔者就近年来影像组学在肿瘤内异质性评估中的进展、临床应用潜能进行综述,以期为影像组学驱动的肿瘤精准诊疗提供借鉴和思考。

     

    Abstract: Intratumoral heterogeneity is a key feature of solid tumors, including clonal heterogeneity, spatial heterogeneity and temporal heterogeneity. It plays a significant role in tumor growth, proliferation, invasion, metastasis, and treatment sensitivity, which is closely associated with adverse prognoses in cancer patients.Despite significant progress in the assessment of intratumor heterogeneity in recent years, effective means for early and non‑invasive assessment of intratumor heterogeneity are still lacking. Radiomics, leveraging computer technology to extract features from tumor images, provides quantitative analysis with the advantages of non‑invasiveness and systematic analysis. In recent years, radiomics has demonstrated great potential in the early diagnosis, therapeutic response prediction, and prognosis assessment of intratumor heterogeneity. By integrating multiple machine learning and deep learning modeling analyses, it can provide important references and support for clinical decision‑making related to tumor heterogeneity. Furthermore, combining radiomics with other omics can provide a new perspective for analyzing the connection between macroscopic phenomena and microscopic biology.The authors review the progress and clinical application potential of radiomics in the assessment of intratumoral heterogeneity in recent years, with the aim of providing some reference and reflection for radiomics‑driven precise diagnosis and treatment of tumors.

     

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