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Colon Cancer Stage IIATTRACTNCT06108310

ArTificial inTelligence-based RAdiogenomics in Colon Tumors

An observational study of Colon Cancer Stage II and Colon Cancer Stage III, run by University of Roma La Sapienza at 1 site in Italy.

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Trial summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to develop an artificial intelligence-based model to assess radiogenomics signature of colon tumor in patients with stage II-III colon cancer. The main question it aims to answer is: Can artificial intelligence-based algorithm of radiomics features combined with clinical factors… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Colon Cancer Stage II, Colon Cancer Stage III
How many people
500 participants
Where
1 siteItaly
Study dates
2 Jan 2021to 31 Dec 2025
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: The training phase will consist of a retrospective selection of three-hundred patients with pathologically proven stage II and III colon cancer from an institutional database. Test and validation will consist of a prospective data collection form a new patient population. Patients' recruitment will be performed by the Oncologic Unit and Unit of Surgery of Sant'Andrea Hospital - Sapienza University of Rome. Pathology and genomic will be extracted from the sample obtained during surgery and blood samples for ctDNA analysis will be collected before and during chemotherapy/follow up visits (within 30 day after colorectal surgery, after 3 and then every 6 months)

Who may be able to join

  • patients with pathologically proven stage II and stage III colon cancer;
  • availability of a CT scan with portal-venous phase at the time of diagnosis;
  • availability of immunohistochemical panel

Who cannot join

  • patients with no CT images prior to surgical resection;
  • patients with CT scans characterized by motion artifacts preventing radiomics analysis

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Italy1 site, 1 recruiting
  • AOU Sant'Andrea

    Roma, RM, 00189

    Andrea Laghi, MD, +390633775285‬, andrea.laghi@uniroma1.it

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: ATTRACT - ArTificial inTelligence-based RAdiogenomics in Colon Tumors

The goal of this clinical trial is to develop an artificial intelligence-based model to assess radiogenomics signature of colon tumor in patients with stage II-III colon cancer. The main question it aims to answer is:

  • Can artificial intelligence-based algorithm of radiomics features combined with clinical factors, biochemical biomarkers, and genomic data recognise tumor behaviour, aggressiveness, and prognosis, identifying a radiogenomics signature of the tumor?

Participants will

  • undergo a preoperative contrast-enhanced CT examination;
  • undergo surgical excision of colon cancer
  • undergo adjuvant therapy if deemed necessary based on current guidelines
Read the detailed description

The ATTRACT trial consist of a retrospective and a prospective part. In the retrospective part of the trial, radiology, pathology, and genomics data of 300 patients with stage II-III colon cancer will be used to identify the genetic and radiomics features of colon tumors and the clinical endpoints as the outcomes of the predictive model.

Tumors will be manually segmented on CT images and used for the AI (artificial intelligence)-model generation. Pathological annotations will be associated to the corresponding anonymised profiles. Immunohistochemistry will be used to classify the samples in the 4 molecular subtypes according.RNA-seq profiles will be also generated from tissue samples through targeted transcriptomics using custom NGS (next-generation sequencing) panels specifically designed to evaluate gene expression and assess Tumor Mutational Burden (TMB). Raw data will be processed and modelled using Topological Pathway Analysis to stratify patients according to the relevant molecular features and define molecular annotations that will be used to train the model for the identification of specific clinically relevant groups. Raw data together with radiological data will be used to generate and train the AI-models for the automated segmentation and the extraction of the radiogenomics signature.

Radiomics features will be extracted from manually segmented tumors. Standard PyRadiomics tools as well custom-made tools will be used. Feature robustness will be guaranteed by selecting only those with high inter-observer statistical correlation. Two families of AI models will be generated, one family dedicated to segmentation, and the other dedicated to radiogenomics-based phenotyping according to the clinical, molecular biology and pathological data available. The two families will be fused for the creation of the ATTRACT AI-model. For the generation of these models, specific convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures based on deep learning (DL) and Artificial Intelligence like UNet and MaskNet will be applied. The training will be performed using the manual ROI (region of interest) segmentations as ground truth. For the generation of radiogenomics analysis models, radiomics and genomic features will be combined using different multivariate algorithms. The classificatory will be trained to recognise the cancer subtypes and clinical endpoints.

In the prospective part of the trial, patients with stage II-III colon cancer will be recruited and will undergo a preoperative contrast-enhanced CT examination. The recruitment rate will be 70 patients per year, for a total of 210 patients. After pre-operative CT, surgery will be performed according to international standard protocols. Eventually adjuvant therapy will be considered following current guidelines. Pathological sample of the prospective enrollment will be analyzed. First, with RNA-seq data, TMB (of coding genes) and clinical data, patients will be clustered by making use of two different techniques Markov Cluster algorithm (MCL) and t-SNE (t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding), Multi-Layer Network clustering. Patients will be represented as node of a network, edges between nodes will be weighted and thresholded according to the Jaccard Similarity. The similarity will be computed on top of Gene Expression, TMB, and perturbation information coming from Topological Pathway Analysis. Results of clustering will be matched with those coming from Immunohistochemistry. Clinical follow-up data (i.e. outcome of the therapy etc...) will be, once available, also plugged into the workflow to enforce the learning. Extracted knowledge will be used to annotate the dataset used to train and validate the radiomics classification. Gross specimen will be analyzed in order to extract different transcriptomics molecular subtypes (CMS1, CMS2, CMS3, CMS4) in accordance to the Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Subtyping Consortium (CRCSC) assessing the presence or absence of core subtype patterns among existing gene expression-based CRC subtyping algorithms. The accordance between pathological molecular profile and ctDNA analysis during protocol will be related to radiomics classification in order to provide a new whole-diagnostic model of approach in CRC treatment and surveillance.

Prospective data will be used to validate the AI models. For the segmentation models, the Dice Coefficient will be used as an indicator to measure the degree of overlap between the automated and the expert segmentation. For the radiogenomics model, performances will be evaluated using accuracy, integral under the receiver operator curve (ROC-AUC) and clinical decision curve. The investigators will also take into consideration, in order to select the best AI models, the response to the variation of the input characteristics and will produce saliency maps where the features of the input image that mostly contributed to the classification are highlighted.

Clinical evaluation with will be performed every 6 months for 2 years, including regular serum CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) tests and Whole-Body CT every 6-12 months in patients who are at higher risk of recurrence in the first 3 years following ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) guidelines .Disease-free survival (DFS) and relapse-free survival (RFS) will be calculated.

Keywords
colon cancer, artificial intelligence, segmentation, computed tomography
Medical subject headings
Colonic Neoplasms

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Identification of radiogenomics signature (ATTRACT AI-model) of stage II-III colon tumors

    Measured: From January 2021 to December 2023

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Correlation of radiogenomics signature (ATTRACT AI-model) of colon cancer with clinical outcomes (DFS and RFS)

    Measured: From January 2024 to December 2025

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted31 Oct 2023
  2. Study start2 Jan 2021
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2024 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2025 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Other
Enrolment
500 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06108310
Sponsor's protocol ID
IG24974
Acronym
ATTRACT
Status last verified
Oct 2023
First submitted
15 Jul 2023
Last updated
31 Oct 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

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    PubMed 28482346
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    PubMed 30402498
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Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Colon Cancer Stage II and Colon Cancer Stage III, run by University of Roma La Sapienza at 1 site in Italy.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 31 Oct 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Italy. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Andrea Laghi, MD (+390633775285‬, andrea.laghi@uniroma1.it), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Identification of radiogenomics signature (ATTRACT AI-model) of stage II-III colon tumors (time frame: From January 2021 to December 2023). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06108310, which also lists 41 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 31 Oct 2023.

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