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HoG-Net: Hierarchical Multi-organ Graph Network for Head and Neck Cancer Recurrence Prediction from CT Images

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

In many cancers including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), pathologic processes are not limited to a single region of interest, but instead encompass surrounding anatomical structures and organs outside of the tumor. To model information from organs-at-risk (OARs) as well as from the primary tumor, we present a Hierarchical Multi-Organ Graph Network (HoG-Net) for medical image modeling which we leverage to predict locoregional tumor recurrence (LR) for HNSCC patients. HoG-Net is able to model local features from individual OARs and then constructs a holistic global representation of interactions between features from multiple OARs in a single image. HoG-Net’s prediction of LR for HNSCC patients is evaluated in a largest yet studied dataset of N = 2,741 patients from six institutions, and outperforms several previously published baselines. Further, HoG-Net allows insights into which OARs are significant in predicting LR, providing specific OAR-level interpretability rather than the coarse patch-level interpretability provided by other methods. Code can be found at https://github.com/bmi-imaginelab/HoGNet.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024 - 27th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMarius George Linguraru, Qi Dou, Aasa Feragen, Stamatia Giannarou, Ben Glocker, Karim Lekadir, Julia A. Schnabel
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages317-327
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031720857
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024 - Marrakesh, Morocco
Duration: Oct 6 2024Oct 10 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15005 LNCS

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityMarrakesh
Period10/6/2410/10/24

Keywords

  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Head and Neck Cancer
  • Tumor Recurrence

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