Recent research on AI models for predicting nCRT and chemotherapy response in the treatment of CRC

TopicResearchModelPerformanceYearReference
nCRT

EUS images of 43 LARC patients as predictive biomarkers

Images pre-processed by lee, wiener, median, frost, bilateral, and wavelet filters

LR and SVM

AUC: 0.71 and 0.76

Accuracy: 70.0% and 71.5%

Sensitivity: 69.8% and 80.2% (respectively)

2022[51]

CT images of 215 LARC patients

Images evaluated by filtration histogram texture analysis and fractal dimension

LR

Accuracy: 82%

Specificity: 89%

Sensitivity: 60%

2021[52]
pCR prediction in 282 LARC patients (248 training and 34 validation)ANNAUC/accuracy/sensitivity: 0.84/0.88/0.94 respectively2020[53]
pCR prediction in 6,555 non-metastatic cancer patients undergoing radical resectionLR

92.4%/88.2%: With/without—pathological complete response

(overall survival rate of 3 years)

2019[54]

MRI of 98 patients (53/45: training test/validation set respectively)

Image preprocessing by EMLMs and LOG filters

SVM, NN, BN, and KNN

Test (AUC and accuracy): 97.8% and 92.8%

Validation (AUC and accuracy): 95% and 90%

2019[55]
MRI of 55 LARC patients to predict pCR and pNR ratesRF0.83: Mean of AUC2019[56]
ChemotherapyIrinotecan drug toxicity prediction in 20 metastatic CRC patients (liver function bloody tests and tumor markers)SVMAccuracy: 91%/76%/75% for diarrhea/leukopenia/neutropenia respectively2019[57]

Detection of IC50 of a drug

Evaluation of QSAR using NMR

Analysis of 18,850 organic compounds

KNN, RF, and SVMAbove 63% accuracy2018[58]

AUC: area under curve; NN: neural network; BN: Bayesian network; LARC: locally advanced rectal cancer; EUS: endorectal ultrasound; IC50: half maximal inhibitory concentration; LOG: Laplacian of Gaussian; NMR: nuclear magnetic resonance; CT: computed tomography; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; pCR: pathologic complete response; EMLMs: ensemble machine learning models; pNR: pathologic non responder