Overcoming challenges of translating deep-learning models for glioblastoma: the ZGBM consortium

Haris Shuaib; Gareth J Barker; Peter Sasieni; Enrico De Vita; Alysha Chelliah; Roman Andrei; Keyoumars Ashkan; Erica Beaumont; Lucy Brazil; Chris Rowland-Hill; Yue Hui Lau; Aysha Luis; James Powell; Angela Swampillai; Sean Tenant; Stefanie C Thust; Stephen Wastling; Tom Young; Thomas C Booth

arXiv · 2405.05980

Overcoming challenges of translating deep-learning models for glioblastoma: the ZGBM consortium

Haris Shuaib·Gareth J Barker·Peter Sasieni·Enrico De Vita·Alysha Chelliah·Roman Andrei·Keyoumars Ashkan·Erica Beaumont·Lucy Brazil·Chris Rowland-Hill·Yue Hui Lau·Aysha Luis·James Powell·Angela Swampillai·Sean Tenant·Stefanie C Thust·Stephen Wastling·Tom Young·Thomas C Booth

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Objective: To report imaging protocol and scheduling variance in routine care of glioblastoma patients in order to demonstrate challenges of integrating deep-learning models in glioblastoma care pathways. Additionally, to understand the most common imaging studies and image contrasts to inform the development of potentially robust deep-learning models. Methods: MR imaging data were analysed from a random sample of five patients from the prospective cohort across five participating sites of the ZGBM consortium. Reported clinical and treatment data alongside DICOM header information were analysed to understand treatment pathway imaging schedules. Results: All sites perform all structural imaging at every stage in the pathway except for the presurgical study, where in some sites only contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging is performed. Diffusion MRI is the most common non-structural imaging type, performed at every site. Conclusion: The imaging protocol and scheduling varies across the UK, making it challenging to develop machine-learning models that could perform robustly at other centres. Structural imaging is performed most consistently across all centres. Advances in knowledge: Successful translation of deep-learning models will likely be based on structural post-treatment imaging unless there is significant effort made to standardise non-structural or peri-operative imaging protocols and schedules.

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Haris Shuaib, Gareth J Barker, Peter Sasieni, Enrico De Vita, Alysha Chelliah, Roman Andrei, Keyoumars Ashkan, Erica Beaumont, Lucy Brazil, Chris Rowland-Hill, Yue Hui Lau, Aysha Luis, James Powell, Angela Swampillai, Sean Tenant, Stefanie C Thust, Stephen Wastling, Tom Young, Thomas C Booth. 2024-05-07. Overcoming challenges of translating deep-learning models for glioblastoma: the ZGBM consortium. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05980

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