Abstract

BackgroundHepatic alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a severe zoonotic parasitic disease, and accurate preoperative prediction of lymph node (LN) metastasis in AE patients is crucial for disease management, but it remains an unresolved challenge. The aim of this study was to establish a radiomics model for the preoperative prediction of LN metastasis in hepatic AE patients.MethodsA total of 100 hepatic AE patients who underwent hepatectomy and hepatoduodenal ligament LN dissection at Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital between January 2016 and August 2023 were included in the study. The patients were randomly divided into a training set and a validation set at an 8:2 ratio. Radiomic features were extracted from three-dimensional images of the hepatoduodenal ligament LNs delineated on arterial phase computed tomography (CT) scans of hepatic AE patients. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression was applied for data dimensionality reduction and feature selection. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to develop a prediction model, and the predictive performance of the model was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, calibration curves, and decision curve analysis (DCA).ResultsA total of 7 radiomics features associated with LN status were selected using LASSO regression. The classification performances of the training set and validation set were consistent, with area under the operating characteristic curve (AUC) values of 0.928 and 0.890, respectively. The model also demonstrated good stability in subsequent validation.ConclusionIn this study, we established and evaluated a radiomics-based prediction model for LN metastasis in patients with hepatic AE using CT imaging. Our findings may provide a valuable reference for clinicians to determine the occurrence of LN metastasis in hepatic AE patients preoperatively, and help guide the implementation of individualized surgical plans to improve patient prognosis.

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