NCT06854107

Intratumoral and Peritumoral Habitat Radiomics of MRI Predict Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 225 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zilong Yuan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background：Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy (NACI) shows promise in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), but reliable noninvasive biomarkers for predicting pathologic complete response (pCR) remain scarce. Radiomics integrating intratumoral and peritumoral heterogeneity across multi-sequence MRI may offer novel insights into treatment response evaluation. Methods: The data of 212 patients with OSCC after NACI were retrospectively collected and analyzed. Among these patients, 56 (26.4%) achieved pCR after NACI. Intratumoral and peritumoral habitat imaging (HI) was achieved using the K-means clustering algorithm applied to T1-weighted imaging (T1WI), axial T2-weighted imaging with fat suppression (T2WI), and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging with fat suppression (T1C). Moreover, intratumoral and peritumoral HI models were constructed and compared using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Five-fold cross-validation was performed to mitigate model overfitting.

Conditions

• Pathologic Complete Response

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-01
• Primary completion: 2023-12-01
• Completion: 2023-12-01
• First posted: 2025-03-03
• Last updated: 2025-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China