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<p>Accurate prognosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is crucial for enhancing patient care and treatment outcomes. Despite the advancements in deep learning, the task of overall survival prediction in NSCLC has not fully leveraged these techniques, yet. This study introduces a novel methodology for predicting 2-year overall survival (OS) in NSCLC patients using CT scans. Our approach integrates CT scan representations produced by EfficientNetB0 with a soft attention mechanism to identify the most relevant slices for survival risk prediction, which are then analyzed by a risk-assessment network. To validate our method and ensure reproducibility, we employed the public LUNG1 dataset and a smaller private dataset. Our approach was compared to benchmark 3D networks and two variants of our methodology: on the LUNG1 it outperformed the competitors achieving a mean <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(C^{td}\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <msup> <mi>C</mi> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="italic">td</mi> </mrow> </msup> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-index of 0.584 over tenfold cross-validation. On the LUNG1 we also demonstrated the adaptability of our method with 5 other 2D backbones replacing the EfficientNetB0, confirming that our mechanism of combining 2D slice representations to construct a 3D volume representation is more effective for OS prediction compared to a traditional 3D approach. Finally, we used transfer learning on the private dataset, showing that it can significantly enhance performance in limited data scenarios, increasing the <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(C^{td}\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <msup> <mi>C</mi> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="italic">td</mi> </mrow> </msup> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-index by 0.076 compared to model without transfer learning.</p>

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Predicting lung cancer survival with attention-based CT slices combination

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    2026年1月4日

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  • Domenico Paolo,
  • Carlo Greco,
  • Edy Ippolito,
  • Michele Fiore,
  • Sara Ramella,
  • Paolo Soda,
  • Matteo Tortora,
  • Alessandro Bria,
  • Rosa Sicilia

摘要

Accurate prognosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is crucial for enhancing patient care and treatment outcomes. Despite the advancements in deep learning, the task of overall survival prediction in NSCLC has not fully leveraged these techniques, yet. This study introduces a novel methodology for predicting 2-year overall survival (OS) in NSCLC patients using CT scans. Our approach integrates CT scan representations produced by EfficientNetB0 with a soft attention mechanism to identify the most relevant slices for survival risk prediction, which are then analyzed by a risk-assessment network. To validate our method and ensure reproducibility, we employed the public LUNG1 dataset and a smaller private dataset. Our approach was compared to benchmark 3D networks and two variants of our methodology: on the LUNG1 it outperformed the competitors achieving a mean \(C^{td}\) C td -index of 0.584 over tenfold cross-validation. On the LUNG1 we also demonstrated the adaptability of our method with 5 other 2D backbones replacing the EfficientNetB0, confirming that our mechanism of combining 2D slice representations to construct a 3D volume representation is more effective for OS prediction compared to a traditional 3D approach. Finally, we used transfer learning on the private dataset, showing that it can significantly enhance performance in limited data scenarios, increasing the \(C^{td}\) C td -index by 0.076 compared to model without transfer learning.