Development of a Machine Learning-based Model for Preoperative Prediction of Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Histologically-diagnosed primary HCC after curative hepatectomy. The magnetic resonance image will be imported into the imaging management software (GE healthcare Analysis-Kit software),and the tumor lesions will manually delineated by two independent radiologists and then reconstruct into three-dimensional images for feature extraction. The radiomic textural features including grayscale histogram, transform matrix, wavelet transform and filter transformation are automatically extracted by the Analysis-Kit software.The high-throughput extracted features will be then selected by the univariate analysis, and a prediction model will be developed based on machine learning algorithm in a training set in which patients were collected from a retrospective study. And in the present study, an independent validation set will be collected and used to validate the prediction accuracy of the model.