Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Individualized survival prediction and surgery ...

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Individualized survival prediction and surgery recommendation for patients with glioblastoma

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published
  • Enzhao Zhu
  • Jiayi Wang
  • Qi Jing
  • Weizhong Shi
  • Ziqin Xu
  • Pu Ai
  • Zhihao Chen
  • Zhihao Dai
  • Dan Shan
  • Zisheng Ai
Close
Article number1330907
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>9/05/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Frontiers in Medicine
Volume11
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Background: There is a lack of individualized evidence on surgical choices for glioblastoma (GBM) patients. Aim: This study aimed to make individualized treatment recommendations for patients with GBM and to determine the importance of demographic and tumor characteristic variables in the selection of extent of resection. Methods: We proposed Balanced Decision Ensembles (BDE) to make survival predictions and individualized treatment recommendations. We developed several DL models to counterfactually predict the individual treatment effect (ITE) of patients with GBM. We divided the patients into the recommended (Rec.) and anti-recommended groups based on whether their actual treatment was consistent with the model recommendation. Results: The BDE achieved the best recommendation effects (difference in restricted mean survival time (dRMST): 5.90; 95% confidence interval (CI), 4.40–7.39; hazard ratio (HR): 0.71; 95% CI, 0.65–0.77), followed by BITES and DeepSurv. Inverse probability treatment weighting (IPTW)-adjusted HR, IPTW-adjusted OR, natural direct effect, and control direct effect demonstrated better survival outcomes of the Rec. group. Conclusion: The ITE calculation method is crucial, as it may result in better or worse recommendations. Furthermore, the significant protective effects of machine recommendations on survival time and mortality indicate the superiority of the model for application in patients with GBM. Overall, the model identifies patients with tumors located in the right and left frontal and middle temporal lobes, as well as those with larger tumor sizes, as optimal candidates for SpTR.