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Item Open Access Clinical and radiation risk across one million patients in Computed Tomography: influence of age, size, and race(2023-11-26) Ria, Francesco; Lerebours, Reginald; Zhang, Anru; Erkanli, Alaattin; Abadi, Ehsan; SOLOMON, justin; Marin, Daniele; Samei, EhsanPurpose. We recently developed a mathematical model to balance radiation risk and clinical risk, namely the risk of misdiagnosis due to insufficient image quality. In this work, we applied this model to a population of one million CT imaging cases to evaluate the risk stratification with different ages, sexes, and races. Materials and Methods. The demographics were informed by literature and census information simulating a clinical liver cancer population. The Total Risk (TR) was calculated as the linear combination of radiation risk and clinical risk. The model included factors for the radiation burden for different age and sex; the prevalence of the disease; the false positive rate; the expected life-expectancy loss for an incorrect diagnosis for different ages, sex, and race; and a typical false positive rate of 5%. It was assumed that each case received an average radiologist interpretative performance of 0.75 AUC for a hypothetical lesion without any changes in radiation dose beyond routine practice. We further, for each patient, simulated 2,000 imaging conditions with CTDIvol varying from 0.1 and 200 mGy with 0.1 mGy increments. Per each CTDIvol value, the anticipated AUC was calculated by applying the established asymptotic relationships between CTDIvol and image quality. The AUC distribution was then used to calculate the theoretical minimum total risk (TRmin) per each patient. Results. For the routine practice, the median theoretical total risk was estimated to be 0.058 deaths per 100 patients (range: 0.002 – 0.154) comprising of the median radiation risk of 0.009 (range: 0.001 – 0.069), and of the median clinical risk of 0.049 (range: 7.0x10-5 – 0.094). Considering the varying scanner output conditions, the median TRmin was 0.054 deaths per 100 patients for White male patients, 0.054 for Blacks, 0.057 for Hispanics, and 0.065 for Asians. For female patients, the median TRmin values were 0.049, 0.056, 0.054, and 0.061 deaths per 100 patients, respectively. Conclusion. For each demography condition, the clinical risk was found to largely outweigh the radiation risk by at least 500%. Total risk showed different stratifications with patient age and race. Clinical Relevance Statement. To optimize CT conditions for specific patients and/or population, both radiation risk and clinical risks should be all accounted for together with demographic information. We demonstrated a methodology that allows a complete depiction of total risk in CT, considering radiation and clinical risks at comparable units, and patient demographic.Item Open Access Comparative Risk Assessment of Clinical and Radiation Risk across a Cohort of Patient and Individualized Risk Optimization(https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mp.16525, 2023-07-23) Ria, Francesco; Lerebours, Reginald; Zhang, Anru; Erkanli, Alaattin; Abadi, Ehsan; SOLOMON, justin; Marin, daniele; Samei, EhsanPurpose Informed by a recent mathematical framework, we formulated an imaging strategy to balance interpretative performance-based clinical risk (i.e., false positive and false negative rates) and radiation risk as a risk-versus-risk assessment. The model was applied to a population of one million cases simulating a clinical liver cancer scenario. Moreover, a model was developed to predict individualized risk-versus-risk optimization. Methods The proposed model defined a Total Risk (TR) as the linear combination of radiation risk and clinical risk defined as functions of the radiation burden, the disease prevalence disease, the false positive rate, the expected life-expectancy loss for an incorrect diagnosis, and the radiologist interpretative performance (i.e., AUC). The mathematical framework was applied to a simulated dataset of 1,000,000 CT studies investigating localized stage liver cancer assuming a typical false positive rate of 5% and optimal imaging conditions (AUC=0.75). Demographic information was simulated according with literature and census data including male and female for different patient races (white, black, Asian, and Hispanic). Following BEIR-VII report, organ-specific radiation doses were used to calculate the radiation Risk Index per each patient. The model was then extended to predict the optimal scanner output associated with the TR for specific patients. Results Across all races and sexes, median radiation risk ranged between 0.008 and 0.012 number of deaths per 100 patients; median clinical risk ranged between 0.042 and 0.076; and medial total risk ranged between 0.010 and 0.088 deaths per 100 patients. The mathematical model was then generalized to estimate individualized optimal imaging condition minimizing TR. Conclusion A mathematical framework to describe total risk in CT was robustly tested in a simulated dataset of 1,000,000 CT studies. The results highlighted the dominance of clinical risk at typical CT examination dose levels. The generalization of the mathematical model allowed the prediction of individualized risk optimization.