Beatrice Cattaneo
Multi-modal Deep Learning for Time-to-Event analysis in Head and Neck Squamous Cellular Carcinoma patients.
Rel. Filippo Molinari, Adam Hilbert, Julian Weingärtner, Sebastian Zschaeck. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2023
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Abstract
Head and Neck Squamous Cellular Carcinoma (HNSCC) constitutes the seventh most common cancer diagnosis worldwide, and the long term survival of the affected patients is highly influenced by possible development of distant metastasis and tumor relapse. Hence, a prognostic model able to predict such occurrences would significantly benefit these patients and could be employed for treatment recommendation in order to optimize the handling of the individual subject. In the depicted context, this Thesis aims at describing the development of a multi-modal Deep Learning model for Time to Event analysis of HNSCC patients; our approach involves the employment of clinical and imaging data for the prediction of distant metastasis, loco-regional failure and overall survival of the single patient.
In the context of automated models for clinical outcome prediction, our work involves the innovation given by the use of a combination of clinical and imaging (i.e., CT and 18FDG-PET) data: while the latter are universally known to hold a significant amount of information in the investigation of tumors, in this study clinical data are thought to provide further knowledge to the conditions of the patient, and their prognostic power is therefore assessed and employed for the predictions
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