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Deep Learning for Tumor Progression in Glioblastoma: A Comprehensive Evaluation for Clinical Diagnosis

2025· article· W4417403319 on OpenAlexafffund
Rayyan Azam Khan, Pascal Lambert, Zhe Wang, Parandoush Abbasian, Lawrence Ryner, Marshall Pitz, Ahmed Ashraf

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WinnipegCancerCare ManitobaUniversity of Manitoba
FundersCancerCare Manitoba Foundation
KeywordsGlioblastomaDeep learningTumor progressionBrain tumorBrier scoreOutcome (game theory)Clinical diagnosisTumor grade

Abstract

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The timely diagnosis of tumor progression is crucial to implementing treatment changes that can improve patient survival. In this study, we analyzed scans from 114 patients with glioblastoma multiforme to differentiate between pseudoprogression and true tumor progression. We used processed skull segmented and augmented data to perform transfer learning using a pre-trained, customized ResNet-18. An AUC of 0.71, an F1 score of 0.64, and a geometric mean of sensitivity and specificity of 0.67 were achieved. Although the saliency maps demonstrate that the model was able to identify the correct region of interest, the low scaled Brier score of 0.07 indicates that the model is just slightly better than random, underscoring the importance of outcome likelihood metrics. These results demonstrate that the achieved performance levels are not yet sufficient to support reliable clinical decision-making. To make the model clinically applicable, further investigation and refinement are required to enhance its accuracy, reliability, and overall clinical utility.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.445
Teacher spread0.373 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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