Radiomics and Its Applications and Progress in Pancreatitis: A Current State of the Art Review

Gaowu Yan; Gaowen Yan; Hongwei Li; Hongwei Liang; Chen Peng; Anup Bhetuwal; Morgan A McClure; Yongmei Li; Guoqing Yang; Yong Li; Linwei Zhao; Xiaoping Fan

doi:10.3389/fmed.2022.922299

Radiomics and Its Applications and Progress in Pancreatitis: A Current State of the Art Review

Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Jun 23:9:922299. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.922299. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Gaowu Yan¹, Gaowen Yan², Hongwei Li³, Hongwei Liang⁴, Chen Peng⁵, Anup Bhetuwal⁶, Morgan A McClure⁷, Yongmei Li⁴, Guoqing Yang¹, Yong Li¹, Linwei Zhao¹, Xiaoping Fan¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, China.
² Department of Radiology, The First Hospital of Suining, Suining, China.
³ Department of Radiology, The Third Hospital of Mianyang and Sichuan Mental Health Center, Mianyang, China.
⁴ Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Suining, Suining, China.
⁶ Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China.
⁷ Department of Radiology and Imaging, Institute of Rehabilitation and Development of Brain Function, The Second Clinical Medical College of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong Central Hospital, Nanchong, China.

Abstract

Radiomics involves high-throughput extraction and analysis of quantitative information from medical images. Since it was proposed in 2012, there are some publications on the application of radiomics for (1) predicting recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP), clinical severity of acute pancreatitis (AP), and extrapancreatic necrosis in AP; (2) differentiating mass-forming chronic pancreatitis (MFCP) from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), focal autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) from PDAC, and functional abdominal pain (functional gastrointestinal diseases) from RAP and chronic pancreatitis (CP); and (3) identifying CP and normal pancreas, and CP risk factors and complications. In this review, we aim to systematically summarize the applications and progress of radiomics in pancreatitis and it associated situations, so as to provide reference for related research.

Keywords: acute pancreatitis; autoimmune pancreatitis; chronic pancreatitis; computed tomography; magnetic resonance imaging; pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; positron emission tomography/computed tomography; radiomics.

Publication types

Review