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Table 1 Radiomics study for predictive evaluation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

From: Application of radiomics-based multiomics combinations in the tumor microenvironment and cancer prognosis

Tumor type

Sample size

TILs evaluation

TILs evaluation method

Imaging modality

Feature selection

Model

Training set performance

Validation set performance

References

N/A

254

CD8+TILs

RNA-seq

CT

Elastic-net

Linear regression

AUC 0.74

AUC 0.67

[43]

UPS

14

CD8+TILs

RNA-seq

MRI

N/A

N/A

ACC 93%

N/A

[54]

TNBC

139

TILs

RNA-seq

MRI

Elastic net

LR

AUC 0.868

AUC 0.790

[46]

TNBC

43

TILs

IHC

Mammography

Mann–Whitney U-test/PCC

N/A

N/A

N/A

[55]

TNBC

80

TILs

HE

MRI

N/A

N/A

AUC 0.752

N/A

[51]

BC

133

TILs

HE

MRI

LASSO

LR

AUC 0.934

AUC 0.872

[47]

BC

172

TILs

IHC

MRI

LASSO

Linear regression

AUC 0.742

AUC 0.718

[56]

BC

121

TILs

HE

Mammography

RFE

LR

AUC 0.83

AUC 0.79

[57]

BC

154

TILs

NA

MRI

LASS0

LR

AUC 0.86

AUC 0.83

[58]

RC

141

CD8+TILs

IHC

MRI

LASSO

Linear regression

AUC 0.760

AUC 0.729

[42]

RC

133

T cells

IHC

MRI

GBDT

LR

AUC 0.770

AUC 0.768

[59]

CCLM

103

T cells

IHC

CT

N/A

SVM

N/A

N/A

[60]

HGG

51

T cells

FCM

MRI

sPLS

sPLS-DA

AUC 0.986

N/A

[61]

LGG

107

B/T cells

RNA-seq

MRI

LASSO

COX

R correlation coefficient

 

[62]

       

0.975 (B cell)

0.429

 
       

0.474 (CD8 T cell)

0.552

 

NSCLC

100

TILs

IHC

CT

Mann–Whitney U

Cox model

AUC 0.91

N/A

[52]

NSCLC

103

CD8+TILs

IHC

PET/CT

LASSO

LR

AUC 0.800

AUC 0.794

[63]

NSCLC

290

TILs

IHC

CT

N/A

COX

N/A

N/A

[64]

NSCLC

117

CD8+TILs

IHC

CT

LASSO

N/A

AUC 0.83

AUC 0.68

[65]

NSCLC

60

TILs

IHC

CT

PCA

N/A

N/A

N/A

[66]

NSCLC

149

CD8+T cells

RNA-seq

CT

N/A

RF

AUC 0.681 (RF)

N/A

[67]

      

LDA

AUC 0.674 (LDA)

  
      

CART

AUC 0.647 (CART)

  

NSCLC

97

CD8+TILs

FACS

CT

N/A

Neural network

0.788

0.753

[68]

NSCLC

91

CD8+TILs

IHC

PET-CT

LASSO

LR

0.818

N/A

[69]

NSCLC

44

CD8+TILs

IHC

PET

N/A

COX

0.9

N/A

[70]

NSCLC

221

CD8+T cells

IHC

PET/CT

LASSO

LR

0.907

0.883

[71]

PDAC

184

CD8+TILs

IHC

CT

LASSO

XGBoost

AUC 0.75

AUC 0.67

[48]

PDAC

156

CD20B cells

IHC

MRI

LASSO

LR

AUC 0.79

AUC 0.79

[72]

PDAC

114

CD8+T cells

IHC

MRI

LASSO

LDA

AUC 0.85

AUC 0.76

[73]

PDAC

183

TILs

IHC

CT

NA

XGBoost

AUC 0.93

AUC 0.79

[74]

PDAC

156

TILs

IHC

MRI

LASSO

XGBoost

AUC 0.86

AUC 0.79

[49]

HCC

142

CD8+T cells

IHC

CT

Elastic-net

linear regression

AUC 0.751

0.705

[50]

HCC

207

T cells

IHC

MRI

Randomized tree

Randomized tree

AUC 0.904

AUC 0.823

[75]

HNSCC

160

CD8+T cells

RNA-seq

CT

Consensus clustering

RF

ACC 65.7%

N/A

[76]

HNSCC

71

CD8+T cells

IHC

CT

LASSO

LR

0.786

N/A

[77]

ESCC

220

CD8+T cells

IHC

CT

LASSO

LR

0.764

0.728

[78]

  1. UPS undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas, HGG high-grade gliomas, TNBC triple-negative breast cancer, BC breast cancer, NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer, PDAC pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, HCC hepatocellular carcinoma, LGG lower-grade gliomas, CCLM colorectal cancer lung metastasis, HNSCC head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, ESCC esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, CART classification and regression tree, H&E hematoxylin and eosin, IHC immunohistochemistry, PET Positron emission tomography, LASSO least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, ACC accuracy, sPLS-DA sparse partial least squares discriminant analysis, RFE recursive feature elimination, LR logistic regression, GBDT gradient boosting decision tree, PCC Pearson correlation coefficient, PCA principal component analysis, RNA-seq RNA-sequencing, LDA linear discriminative analysis, SVM support vector machine, RF random forest, FACS fluorescence-activated cell sorting, FCM flow cytometry, AUC area under the curve, N/A not applicable