Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit (CaPTk)  1.8.0.nonRelease.20200921.4c65c6f7
Brain Cancer: Glioblastoma Molecular Subtype Prediction

This application provides the prediction of the molecular subtype of de novo glioblastoma patients using baseline pre-operative multi-parametric MRI analysis [1].

REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Co-registered Multi-modal MRI: T1, T1-Gd, T2, T2-FLAIR, DTI-AX, DTI-FA, DTI-RAD, DTI-TR, DSC-PH, DSC-PSR, DSC-rCBV.
  2. Segmentation labels of the tumor sub-regions: Non-enhancing tumor core (Label=1), Enhancing tumor core (Label=4), Edema (Label=2), as well as the Ventricle (Label=7)
  3. Segmentation labels in a common atlas space: Non-enhancing tumor core (Label=1), Enhancing tumor core (Label=4), Edema (Label=2), as well as the Ventricle (Label=7)
  4. Clinical data: A csv file having patient's demographics (Note that the CSV file should be in ASCII format). Should have age (in first column) and molecular subtype (in second column) for training a new model, and age only for molecular subtype prediction of new patients.
  5. The data for each patient should be organized in the following directory structure. When running in the command-line, filenames must include words in BOLD to be identified as respective required files.
    • Subject_ID
      1. features.csv
      2. CONVENTIONAL
        • my_t1_file.nii.gz
        • my_t2_file.nii.gz
        • my_t1ce_file.nii.gz
        • my_flair_file.nii.gz
      3. DTI
        • my_axial_file.nii.gz
        • my_fractional_file.nii.gz
        • my_radial_file.nii.gz
        • my_trace_file.nii.gz
      4. PERFUSION
        • my_rcbv_file.nii.gz
        • my_psr_file.nii.gz
        • my_ph_file.nii.gz
      5. SEGMENTATION
        • label_segmentation_file.nii.gz (in same space as above images)
        • label_in_atlas_space.nii.gz (in common atlas space)
  6. The data of multiple patients should be organized in the above mentioned structure and reside under the same folder, e.g.:
    • Input_Directory
      1. Subject_ID1
      2. Subject_ID2
      3. ...
      4. Subject_IDn

USAGE:

  • Train New Model:
    1. "Select Subjects". Select the input directory that follows the folder structure described above.
    2. "Output". Select the folder where the trained model will be saved.
    3. A pop-up window appears displaying the completion of model building. (Time depends on the number of patients: ~2*Patients minutes).
    • This application is also available as with a stand-alone CLI for data analysts to build pipelines around, using the following example command:
      ${CaPTk_InstallDir}/bin/MolecularSubtypePredictor.exe -t 0 -i C:/MolecularSubtypeInput -o C:/MolecularSubtypeModel
      
  • Use Existing Model:
    1. "Model Directory". Choose the directory of a saved model.
    2. "Test Subjects". Select the input directory that follows the folder structure described above.
    3. "Output". Select the output directory where a .csv file with the predicted molecular subtypes for all patients will be saved, and click on 'Confirm'.
    4. A pop-up window appears displaying the completion of subtype calculation. The window will also show the molecular subtype of the first subject in the Data_of_multiple_patients folder (runtime depends on the number of patients: ~2*patients minutes).
    • This application is also available as with a stand-alone CLI for data analysts to build pipelines around, using the following example command:
      ${CaPTk_InstallDir}/bin/MolecularSubtypePredictor.exe -t 1 -i C:/MolecularSubtypeInput -m C:/MolecularSubtypeModel -o C:/MolecularSubtypeOutput
      

References:

  1. L.Macyszyn, H.Akbari, J.M.Pisapia, X.Da, M.Attiah, V.Pigrish, Y.Bi, S.Pal, R.V.Davuluri, L.Roccograndi, N.Dahmane. M.Martinez-Lage, G.Biros, R.L.Wolf, M.Bilello, D.M.O'Rourke, C.Davatzikos. "Imaging patterns predict patient survival and molecular subtype in glioblastoma via machine learning techniques", Neuro Oncol. 18(3):417-25, 2016, DOI:10.1093/neuonc/nov127.