Review Article

Current and Potential Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Imaging

Table 2

Details of 10 articles on artificial intelligence in the prediction of GISTs’ risk stratification and prognosis.

AuthorYearNationStudy designSample sizeExtracted features of AISoftware

Feng C et al. [26].2018ChinaRetrospective90First-order statistics: Mean attenuation; 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentile attenuation; skewness; kurtosis; entropyCT kinetics
Wang C et al. [27].2019ChinaRetrospective333
Training cohort = 233
Validation cohort = 100
First-order (histogram), haralick features, GLCM, GLRLMAK
Chen T et al. [25].2019ChinaRetrospective222
Training cohort = 130
Validation cohort = 92
GLV, GLRLM, GLSZM, NGTDM, GLSZMMATLAB
Yan J et al. [28].2018ChinaRetrospective213First-order (histogram) gradient features, GLCM, GLRLMMaZda
Liu S et al. [29].2018ChinaRetrospective78First-order (histogram)Image analyzer
Zhang L et al. [30].2020ChinaRetrospective140
Training cohort = 100
Validation cohort = 40
First-order features, shape and size features, second-order features (GLCM, GLRLM, GLSZM) features, and haralick featuresAK
Choi I et al. [24].2019KoreaRetrospective145First-order statistics: Mean SD of mean, entropy, MPP, skewness, and kurtosis. Geometry with Gaussian filtrationMATLAB
Ning Z et al. [31].2018ChinaRetrospective231
Training cohort = 130
Validation cohort = 101
First-order, second-order (GLCM, GLRLM, GLSZM, and NGTDM) featuresMATLAB PYTHON
Zhang Q et al. [32].2020ChinaRetrospective339
Training cohort = 148
|Internal validation cohort = 41
External validation cohort = 150
First-order statistics, features of shape, second-order features (GLCM, GLRLM, GLSZM)PYTHON
Li X et al. [33]2020ChinaRetrospective915
Training cohort = 680
Validation cohort = 54
Testing cohort = 181
First-order (histogram), second-order (GLCM, GLRLM, GLSZM, NGTDM) and wavelet-filtered featuresMATLAB

Note. GLCM = gray-level cooccurrence matrix, GLRLM = gray-level run-length matrix, GLV = gray-level variance, GLSZM = gray-level size-zone matrix, NGTDM = Neighborhood gray-tone difference matrix.