ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Cancer Imaging and Image-directed Interventions
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1595406
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvances in Oncological Imaging TechniquesView all 10 articles
A Nomogram Model Integrating Radiomics and Clinical Variables to Predict Napsin A Expression in Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients
Provisionally accepted
- People's Liberation Army Navy 971 Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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Background: Lung adenocarcinoma, a major subtype of non-small cell lung cancer, requires non-invasive diagnostic tools to improve early detection and differentiate primary from metastatic tumors. Napsin A, a key marker for primary lung adenocarcinoma, is traditionally assessed via 2 2 invasive biopsy, limiting its utility in reflecting tumor heterogeneity. Radiomics, which extracts quantitative features from medical images, offers potential for non-invasive prediction of molecular markers like Napsin A. Objectives: To develop and validate a nomogram integrating radiomic features and clinical variables for non-invasive prediction of Napsin A expression in lung adenocarcinoma. Methods: This retrospective study enrolled 308 lung adenocarcinoma patients (training cohort: n = 246; validation cohort: n = 62), with contrast-enhanced CT images were used to extract 1,734 radiomic features, which underwent dimensionality reduction via t-tests, Pearson correlation, minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR), and LASSO regression, retaining 27 final features; significant clinical variables (gender, smoking history, pulmonary cavity, spiculation sign, pleural indentation sign) were selected by logistic regression. A nomogram integrating radiomic and clinical predictors was developed and evaluated using ROC curves (AUC for Napsin A prediction), calibration curves (Hosmer-Lemeshow test), and decision curve analysis (DCA) for clinical utility.The integrated nomogram model outperformed standalone radiomic and clinical models in predicting Napsin A expression, achieving AUC values of 0.844 (95% CI: 0.790-0.898) in the training cohort (n = 246) and 0.845 (95% CI: 0.724-0.967) in the validation cohort (n = 62), with balanced accuracy of 82.1% and 80.6%, respectively. Calibration curves showed strong agreement between predicted and observed outcomes (Hosmer-Lemeshow P > 0.05), and decision curve analysis confirmed its superior clinical utility across diverse threshold probabilities.The integrated nomogram offers a reliable non-invasive method for predicting Napsin A expression in lung adenocarcinoma, supporting personalized treatment decisions and reducing reliance on invasive biopsies.
Keywords: Lung Adenocarcinoma, Napsin A, nomogram, Radiomics, Non-invasive diagnosis
Received: 18 Mar 2025; Accepted: 16 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Jianzhong Guan, People's Liberation Army Navy 971 Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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