UBC Faculty Research and Publications

Enhanced Lung Cancer Survival Prediction Using Semi-Supervised Pseudo-Labeling and Learning from Diverse PET/CT Datasets Salmanpour, Mohammad R.; Gorji, Arman; Mousavi, Amin; Fathi Jouzdani, Ali; Sanati, Nima; Maghsudi, Mehdi; Leung, Bonnie; Ho, Cheryl; Yuan, Ren; Rahmim, Arman

Abstract

Objective: This study explores a semi-supervised learning (SSL), pseudo-labeled strategy using diverse datasets such as head and neck cancer (HNCa) to enhance lung cancer (LCa) survival outcome predictions, analyzing handcrafted and deep radiomic features (HRF/DRF) from PET/CT scans with hybrid machine learning systems (HMLSs). Methods: We collected 199 LCa patients with both PET and CT images, obtained from TCIA and our local database, alongside 408 HNCa PET/CT images from TCIA. We extracted 215 HRFs and 1024 DRFs by PySERA and a 3D autoencoder, respectively, within the ViSERA 1.0.0 software, from segmented primary tumors. The supervised strategy (SL) employed an HMLS–PCA connected with six classifiers on both HRFs and DRFs. The SSL strategy expanded the datasets by adding 408 pseudo-labeled HNCa cases (labeled by the Random Forest algorithm) to 199 LCa cases, using the same HMLS techniques. Furthermore, principal component analysis (PCA) linked with four survival prediction algorithms were utilized in the survival hazard ratio analysis. Results: The SSL strategy outperformed the SL method (p

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