AI Prediction of Gastric Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

This study seeks to develop a deep learning model to predict the outcomes of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with gastric cancer. Leveraging participants' CT scans, biopsy pathology images, and clinical profiles, this model aims to forecast the effectiveness of post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy and the subsequent prognosis, thereby aiding in individualized treatment choices for these participants.

Data Collection: The investigators will gather data from 1,800 retrospective cases and 200 prospective cases from multiple hospitals. The retrospective data will be divided into training and testing sets to train and validate the model, respectively. The model's performance will subsequently be evaluated using the prospective dataset.

Clinical Information: This encompasses the participant's gender, age, tumor markers, staging, type, specific treatment plans, pre and post-treatment lab results, etc.

Imaging Data: CT imaging data taken within one month prior to the neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with at least the venous phase CT imaging included.

Pathology Data: Pathology images from a gastric tumor biopsy stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin (HE) taken within one month prior to treatment.

TRG Grading: Based on the pathology report of the surgical samples using the Ryan TRG grading system.

Prognostic Endpoints: The recorded endpoints are a 3-year progression-free survival (PFS) and a 5-year overall survival (OS). All deaths due to non-disease factors are excluded from the prognosis analysis.

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or older;
• Pathologically diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer in accordance with the American AJCC's TNM staging standards;
• Have not undergone any systematic anti-cancer treatments before neoadjuvant chemotherapy and have not had surgery for local progression or distant metastasis;
• Received standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy as recommended by the clinical guidelines, and have documented treatment details;
• CT imaging and biopsy pathology images strictly taken within one month prior to starting neoadjuvant treatment;
• Patients possess comprehensive preoperative clinical information and post-operative TRG grading.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients whose CT or pathology images are unclear, making lesion assessment infeasible;
• Patients diagnosed with other concurrent tumors.