Abstract
Background
Surgery for gliomas is often confounded by difficulties in distinguishing tumor from surrounding normal brain. For better discrimination, intraoperative optical imaging methods using fluorescent dyes are currently being explored. Understandably, such methods require the demonstration of a high degree of diagnostic accuracy and clinical benefit. Currently, clinical utility is determined by tissue biopsies which are correlated to optical signals, and quantified using measures such as sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values, and negative predictive values. In addition, surgical outcomes, such as extent of resection rates and/or survival (progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS)) have been measured. These assessments, however, potentially involve multiple biases and confounders, which have to be minimized to ensure reproducibility, generalizability and comparability of test results. Test should aim at having a high internal and external validity. The objective of this article is to analyze how diagnostic accuracy and outcomes are utilized in available studies describing intraoperative imaging and furthermore, to derive recommendations for reliable and reproducible evaluations.
Methods
A review of the literature was performed for assessing the use of measures of diagnostic accuracy and outcomes of intraoperative optical imaging methods. From these data, we derive recommendations for designing and reporting future studies.
Results
Available literature indicates that potential confounders and biases for reporting the diagnostic accuracy and usefulness of intraoperative optical imaging methods are seldom accounted for. Furthermore, methods for bias reduction are rarely used nor reported.
Conclusions
Detailed, transparent, and uniform reporting on diagnostic accuracy of intraoperative imaging methods is necessary. In the absence of such reporting, studies will not be comparable or reproducible. Future studies should consider some of the recommendations given here.
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Introduction
During high-grade glioma (HGG) surgery, the infiltrative tumor margin is difficult to visualize during surgery. Inadvertent residual enhancing tumor is left behind when the surgeon relies only on differences in tissue color or texture for identifying tumor [5, 85]. For this reason, a number of surgical adjuncts or imaging technologies have been introduced during the last three decades which help the surgeon identify tumor tissue intraoperatively, such as neuronavigation, intraoperative MRI (iMRI) [9], ultrasound [37], and fluorescence guidance.
5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) has been the most widely studied agents used in fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) of HGGs and is approved in different countries around the globe [6, 31, 61, 79, 84, 85, 100]. Off-label use of fluorescein sodium for FGS has been investigated in patient cohorts [2, 3, 18, 25, 50, 62, 64, 78], in addition to indocyanine green (ICG) [105]. Targeted fluorescence markers are under preclinical development and are slowly translating into the human setting [29, 51, 91].
Effective intraoperative fluorescence imaging relies on the assumptions that highlighted tissues truly represent tumor, that non-highlighted tissue presents normal brain, and that the targeted tissue corresponds to the pathology as delineated by preoperative imaging, e.g., MRI contrast enhancement in HGGs.
Therefore, diagnostic methods or tests proposed for proving intraoperative clinical reliability require precise evaluations to ensure they truly predict the presence or absence of tumor tissue in the brain, and provide the surgeon the information to decide (in conjunction with concerns for safety), whether further tumor resection should be performed. In addition to demonstrating a correlation between the signal of the intraoperative method and histology, the FDA requires a proof of clinical benefit for approval which does not necessarily include proof of improved survival [94]. For this purpose, detailed studies are necessary prior to regulatory approval and marketing of such methods.
At present, no detailed, consented criteria for testing the diagnostic accuracy or clinical benefit of intraoperative fluorescence imaging are available. Such criteria would allow comparability and reproducibility of methods. The comparative performance of such methods would ultimately be of interest for their future development and application.
Available guidelines on diagnostic accuracy, e.g., STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy) [11, 71], do not address the particular requirements for intraoperative testing with its many confounders and inherent clustering of data. Although the basic principles for reporting on the accuracy of diagnostic tests are reflected herein, they have been constructed for diagnostic tests, which give one value per patient.
Both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMA) provide guidance on the evaluation of diagnostic tests. The FDA’s “Statistical Guidance on Reporting Results from Studies Evaluating Diagnostic Tests” explicitly does not pertain to testing multiple samples from single patients, which would typically be the case for intraoperative tissue assessments.Footnote 1
EMA’s “Guideline on Clinical Evaluation of Diagnostic Agents”Footnote 2 includes recommendations for testing various stains/markers, e.g., stains used intraoperatively in detection of malignant mucosal lesions, recommending test performance to be expressed both in relation to an overall individual (per patient basis) and to lesions detected and/or organs or sites involved (per lesion or per site basis). However, EMA also does not address the numerous confounders and biases that might be encountered during testing for intraoperative fluorescence in the brain (as reviewed in the following), or other organs.
This review will discuss possible pitfalls and biases involved in testing intraoperative fluorescence, will analyze the available literature on how such biases have been handled, and make suggestions on possible guidelines for intraoperative diagnostic testing.
While this review focusses on widefield fluorescence imaging, which is in broad clinical use, it explicitly pertains to other methods of intraoperative tissue diagnosis as well, e.g., RAMAN spectroscopy, for which ample literature is available [13, 14, 24, 45, 47, 48].
Classical evaluation of diagnostic tests
Diagnostic testing for correctly identifying disease or health prior to treatment decisions is a universal necessity in medicine. The expression “test” signifies any technique for determining whether subjects present a certain physical status or condition, e.g., if he is afflicted with a certain disease. For evaluating the accuracy of a diagnostic test, studies are used in which test results are compared to a reference or gold standard [11]. Reference standards may be laboratory examinations, imaging, pathological data, or clinical outcomes.
Resulting test values may be binary or dichotomous (with two qualities, e.g., disease or no disease), quantitative (or continuous, e.g., PSA for detecting prostate cancer, or other laboratory values), or semi-quantitative (on an ordinal scale, e.g., test strips for detecting sugar in urine [81]).
Many diagnostic tests are based on laboratory values, which ideally, if present or exceeding a certain level, will unambiguously indicate that a patient has a disease, whereas all other patients are disease-free. Due to the inevitable variability inherent to biological systems, however, such unambiguous tests are rare. Rather, there is usually some degree of overlap between test values in diseased and non-diseased patients based on the distribution of test values in either population.
Thus, with the same value of the diagnostic test, one patient may be afflicted with a condition whereas the other is healthy. Tests are therefore assessed for their diagnostic accuracy, i.e., the amount of agreement between the test, which is being assessed, and the reference standard which unequivocally denotes disease [11, 35].
To characterize diagnostic accuracy different measures or terms have been introduced which give information on the performance of tests, derived from the frequency with which a laboratory test or test value truly or falsely indicates disease, or misses the presence of disease, as summarized in Table 1.
Using common measures of diagnostic accuracy for intraoperative tissue diagnosis in the brain
How can traditional methods of diagnostic testing be used for testing the accuracy of intraoperative optical tissue diagnosis in brain tumor surgery?
The most important difference between studies on diagnostic tests that test for the presence of disease in the conventional sense, and intraoperative tissue diagnosis is that traditional measures were developed with every patient generating a single measurement. Hence, individual measurements, being from individual patients, are independent. On the other hand, studies evaluating the accuracy of intraoperative tumor diagnostics will typically be based on histology, and it will not suffice to take only one tissue sample per patient. Rather, multiple samples (clusters) will be collected per patient relating the signal of the detection method and the reference standard, histology. Multiple samples from single patients will render these clustered samples interdependent, an aspect which requires special consideration when assessing the accuracy of such tests.
The argument that intraoperative optical tissue diagnosis can be assessed in as simple a fashion as a laboratory test for the presence of disease therefore requires careful scrutiny. Simply adapting traditional diagnostic accuracy measurements to biopsies during brain tumor surgery is per se flawed, since samples are all collected in the diseased subject or organ but not from healthy subjects. In addition, biopsies in the brain will never be random, especially if the brain looks normal.
Hypothetically, the entire brain should be sampled with an infinite number of samples and analyzed to determine whether the volume of tissue detected by the optical method coincides with the volume of the tumor, i.e., to determine whether the test detects the entire tumor and the result of the test is truly dichotomous (all tumor detected or not). Needless to say, this is not an option. In practice, the sample volume is restricted by craniotomy and corticotomy to the area of the gross tumor and its immediate surroundings.
In addition, investigators are strongly limited by the number of samples they can collect, especially in normal appearing brain. They will have to rely on a finite number of intraoperative biopsies for histological comparisons. To do so, investigators will take samples from non-highlighted and from tissues highlighted by their diagnostic method and then examine samples histologically. Most biopsies will not be taken from normally appearing brain but rather from irregular brain tissue for obvious ethical reasons.
Thus, in contrast to the single laboratory value for a single patient (e.g., PSA for prostate cancer), trying to establish diagnostic accuracy in the brain from intraoperative tissue samples is compromised by numerous confounders and potential biases (with “bias” being defined as the result of systematic flaws or limitations in the design or conduct of a study, which distort the results [99]).
Another aspect which requires attention in the brain is the fact that gliomas are diffusely infiltrating tumors with cell densities tapering into surrounding brain. Tissue biopsies will not only give dichotomous results (tumor or not tumor). Rather, biopsies will reveal a variable degree of infiltration. The likelihood of finding tumor cells in biopsies, i.e., the prevalence of tumor cells, will depend on the distance of the biopsy from the main tumor mass. Traditional values for diagnostic accuracy will depend on where the biopsies are being taken, resulting in possible biases (Fig. 1a and b). Other biases allude to the way individual tissue samples are dissected for analysis (Fig. 2), the timing of surgery after application of the fluorochrome (Fig. 3), the type of staining used for identifying single tumor cells, or the number of samples taken in a certain tissue region.
An example of how biopsy numbers directly affect results of diagnostic testing is given in Table 2. Furthermore, intermixing biopsies from different patients if the numbers per patient vary, will lead to differing results depending on how these are handled (Table 3). In methods with a relevant signal-to-noise ratio that requires the creation of a threshold because of background signal, this threshold will determine the results of the test.
Table 4 summarizes possible biases involved in assessing the accuracy and efficacy of intraoperative diagnostic methods.
Test result reproducibility
Multiple technical and human factors will influence the reproducibility of an intraoperative imaging test.
Technical equipment may be sensitive or insensitive in generating, detecting, and conveying the optical signal to the surgeon, and signals may vary over time due to influence by multiple factors. For example, the distance of the microscope from the illuminated cavity will determine the intensity of light reaching the cavity, which in turn will be linearly related to fluorescence intensity and may influence detection sensitivity. Typically, xenon light sources will have fluctuations and light intensity can deteriorate over time, thereby also influencing the strength of the signal. Lasers will fluctuate and will require calibration. In fluorescence, detection filters are sometimes configured to allow background light to pass. Depending on the intensity of the background signal, the test signal might be less easily detected due to background transmission of excitation light. Such effects will reduce contrast. An example for this is the Yellow 560 Zeiss, which allows a strong background signal to pass, thereby reducing the sensitivity for signal visualization. Indocyanine green (ICG) as a near-infrared (NIR) fluorochrome is invisible to the human eye and requires image processing to account for pulsation artifacts or large fluctuations in signal intensity after administration. Ambient light will interfere with tissue fluorescence in 5-ALA-induced fluorescence-guided resection. Photobleaching might play a role with all fluorochromes [86].
Also, interobserver variation will have an impact on the reproducibility when assessments are qualitative and dependent on personal judgment. An extreme example for this would be the difficulty of colorblind surgeons in differentiating red porphyrin fluorescence [67].
Some studies use technical methods for detecting specific signals from tumors, such as multiple channel spectroscopical fluorescence and/or reflectance, and generate algorithms to identify tumors based on these multiple tissue characteristics. For such methodologies, derived from training sets, with processing of multiple characteristics to give a final algorithm for tissue identification, a validation is required, e.g., cross-validation or independent test cohort. The validation is crucial to guarantee the applicability of the algorithms to data sets that differ from the particular data set used to generate the algorithm [15, 23].
Alternate reference standards
It is evident that histology is an important reference standard, or standard of truth. On the other hand, histology, even when a number of biopsies are obtained, will not give information about the entire tumor or the entire brain. Thus, an alternate outcome might be the completeness of tumor resection based on the intraoperative optical imaging method, as assessed by postoperative imaging, e.g., in how many cases was “complete” resection of the contrast-enhancing portion of tumor possible? In infiltrating lesions such as gliomas, it is necessary to define what should be considered as resection target on MRI. Traditionally, resection of enhancing tumor is considered as the target in high-grade glioma surgery [75, 86], whereas in low-grade gliomas, it is currently the FLAIR-weighted abnormality [57, 82]. However, tumor resection rates do not only depend on intraoperative optical methods for identifying residual tumors. The extent of resection will also be strongly influenced by patient selection (small, non-eloquent tumors vs. larger, eloquent tumors), the availability of intraoperative mapping/monitoring for safely performing maximal tumor resections, or the experience of the surgeon. Since these factors will differ from center to center and from surgeon to surgeon, single arm, monocentric studies will be confounded due to bias in patient selection, available resection technologies, and the surgeon. Thus, using the completeness of resection as an endpoint for evaluating intraoperative diagnostic methods will require randomized trials or prospective cohort studies, where propensity score matching or multivariable statistical methods should be applied in the analysis.
A similar argumentation pertains to outcome, i.e., survival, progression-free survival, and neurological safety. Survival has been used outside of randomized studies to indicate the benefit of a method [2].
Survival as outcome will not be directly related to the diagnostic method but rather to extent of tumor resection. Completeness of tumor resection will be under some influence of useful intraoperative optical methods, but not exclusively so, since the surgeon, who is aware of brain contrasted by a particular method may not resect tumor due to safety concerns. In the 5-ALA randomized, controlled trial in both study arms surgeons decided not to take residual visible tumor in 30% of cases due to concerns for neurological function [86]. The same limitations apply as stated for postoperative imaging. Outcomes could only be interpreted confidently when studied in prognostically balanced cohorts, which can only be achieved by randomization. However, the effects of the diagnostic method on outcome will be small since many other factors influence survival and resection rates. The outcome advantage would not be conferred by the use of the diagnostic method but “merely” by increasing the rates of more “complete” resections. Complete resections would also be observed in the control arm, and not all patients in the arm with the new diagnostic method would have complete resections for functional reasons. Thus, any effects of the intraoperative diagnostic method on outcome, for example time to progression or overall survival, would be invariably diluted and difficult to detect. The numbers needed to achieve statistical power for adequately detecting improvements of survival would therefore be very high.
The need for a guideline for intraoperative tissue diagnosis
Intraoperative tissue diagnosis is an expanding field. Reviews are being compiled, many of which are citing and pooling accuracy data from various publications, the accuracy data being based on classical definitions of diagnostic accuracy (e.g., sensitivity and specificity) and sometimes outcome (extent of resection and overall survival) without further consideration on how these data were determined in the original studies. Closer scrutiny reveals that rarely are possible confounders and biases accounted for or the methodology transparent enough in the original papers to allow generalization or comparison, i.e., ensuring internal and external validity.
For further elucidation, we reviewed all papers evaluating the use of fluorescence in brain tumor surgery, to determine how possible biases, as summarized in Table 4, were accounted for, abiding to the Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) statement [58]. MEDLINE/PubMed and Embrace data bases were interrogated for articles in English published before October 2018 with the following syntax for title and abstracts using EndNote X7 software (Thompson Reuters, Carlsbad, CA, USA): “glioma” or “gliomas” AND “fluorescence”, “fluorescence-guidance”, “fluorescence guided”, “fluorescence-guided”, “fluorophore”, “fluorochrome”, “ALA”, “5-ALA”, “5-Aminolevulinic acid”, “PPIX”, “fluorescein”, “ICG”, “indocyanin green”, “image-guided”, or “image-guidance”. The initial search delivered 2425 articles. After removing duplicates (n = 1221) and non-English articles (n = 63), all available abstracts were screened for relevance. Only articles describing clinical of fluorescence for fluorescence-guided resections of brain tumors were selected and reviewed. A cross-reference check of citations of each relevant literature review included was performed to ensure that no relevant studies were missed by the computed database search. A total of 62 studies were marked as relevant for this evaluation [1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16,17,18, 20,21,22, 26,27,28, 32,33,34, 36, 38,39,40,41,42,43,44, 49, 50, 52, 53, 56, 59,60,61,62,63, 66,67,68, 70, 72,73,74, 77, 80, 85, 88,89,90, 92, 93, 95,96,97,98, 100, 102, 103, 105, 106] (PRISMA flow diagram: see Fig. 4).
Data extraction
Two authors (ESM and WS) independently extracted the following characteristics from the included studies: detection method used, study type (retro-, prospective, randomized), tumor types evaluated, outcome measures (measures of diagnostic accuracy, qualitative or quantitative outcome measures), numbers of patients, numbers of biopsies, prespecified biopsy algorithm, and whether the following sources of bias were accounted for tissue allocation biases A, B, or C, pooling of dependent and independent samples, timing, threshold (signal-to-noise ratios), types of stains used (Table 4).
Results of literature review
Regarding the various confounders and biases, we were able to determine the following:
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Tissue allocation bias type A: Only 9 of 31 studies investigating diagnostic accuracy [27, 61, 65, 74, 77, 90, 100, 101] describe biopsy locations based on the intraoperative signal margins in a reproducible way.
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Tissue allocation bias type B: Only 10 of 31 studies [7, 26, 32, 62, 66, 72, 74, 77, 100, 101] correlate biopsy location with tissue regions on preoperative imaging using neuronavigation.
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Tissue allocation bias type C: No study accounts for or gives biopsy size
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Only two studies accommodate multiple samples per patient by using mixed models with random effects for the individual patient [74, 96] and only one study offers a patient-based and biopsy-based analysis, taking care to collect the same number of biopsies in a sufficient number per patient [87].
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Only four studies have predefined statistical analysis and sample size calculation plans [3, 85, 87, 88].
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All studies have “blinded” pathology, but only 10 go beyond simple H&E staining for determining the presence of tumor cells in infiltrating tumor [1, 3, 7, 27, 38, 42, 43, 66, 77, 88], if any information is available at all.
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Only four studies use objective methods, such as spectrography, for validating the visual (subjective) optical signal [62, 90, 97] (Valdés et al. 2011: spectography; Stummer et al. 2014, spectography; Neira et al. 2016: video pixel intensities) in studies with visible fluorophores.
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Predefined sample collection algorithms are described in several studies [90] (e.g., Stummer et al. 2014); however, these can mostly not be considered as being reproducible if independent investigators would repeat the study.
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The numbers of biopsies per patient are surprisingly small in studies featuring correlations between biopsies and signal, which confounds the meaningful calculation of sensitivity or specificity of a diagnostic test (Table 5). Mean values range from 0.83 to 22 (median 4) biopsies per patient.
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Two studies do not use reproducible reference standards [36, 78]. The comparator is given as “helpful” or “not helpful.”
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Although administered fluorophores will have a strong time-dependent signal, only one study relates the time point of biopsy collection to the time point of fluorophore administration [62].
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Only one randomized study compares conventional surgery to surgery with the diagnostic method [85].
Together, most of these studies provide only minimal information necessary for reproducing results and enabling comparability or generalizability. For further illustration, we constructed a flow chart demonstrating the design of a protocol that addresses many of the biases and confounders involved in intraoperative assessments (Fig. 5).
Due to similar concerns regarding studies on the accuracy of classical tests and their “mediocre” quality [11, 71], the STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy) initiative was born in September 2000. Reporting guidelines based on this initiative were consecutively published in several journals as open access (e.g., Bossuyt et al. [11]). It was felt that past publications with evaluations for diagnostic accuracy studies often lacked information on important aspects of design, conduct, and analysis of such studies. It was (understandably) argued that “flaws in study design can lead to biased results” [55], citing a report [55] that found diagnostic studies with specific design features to be associated with biased, optimistic estimates of diagnostic accuracy compared to studies without such deficiencies. The aim of the STARD initiative was to “to improve the quality of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy” with complete and accurate reporting, allowing “the reader to detect the potential for bias in the study (internal validity) and to assess the generalizability and applicability of the results (external validity)” [11].
The guidance summarized in the STARD guidelines (Electronic Supplementary Material Part 2) is pertinent and should be observed when reporting the evaluation of intraoperative diagnostic tests. However, the STARD guidelines do not address the specific requirements of intraoperative diagnostic imaging in the brain or in other organs, as they were designed for diagnostic tests where one subject gives one test value which is compared to a reference standard, in order to detect a condition of interest in that subject.
More recently the TRIPOD (Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis) guidelines were devised [19] with a similar intention of improving reporting of diagnostic models (but also of prognostic models). The TRIPOD guidelines could be pertinent in the present context, e.g., if multivariable modeling of, e.g., PPV and NPV were performed, paying attention to variables influencing these measures, such as tumor size, or location of biopsies. However, due to its more general nature, this guideline is not entirely sufficient in providing guidance for the detailed context of intraoperative imaging in neurosurgery.
Thus, for the novel and expanding field of intraoperative optical diagnosis, there is an evident need for a guideline for designing and reporting diagnostic accuracy studies.
For this purpose, we suggest expansions of the original STARD guidelines (which may be downloaded under https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/ISSM_STARD_Checklist.pdf), as summarized in Table 6, as well as several considerations and recommendations regarding statistics, which are added in Electronic Supplementary Material 2.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the biases and confounders involved in reliable and reproducible testing of diagnostic accuracy in methods of intraoperative imaging diagnoses are many. In this rapidly expanding field, a consensus on reporting standard is becoming necessary. If investigators do not adhere to such or similar standards, different methods or different studies using the same visualization method simply cannot be compared.
The authors propose a guideline to this end, as suggested and elucidated in Table 6 (references cited in Electronic Supplementary Material [30, 46, 54, 69, 83, 104, 107]).
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Important paper that gives direction for future studies on intraoperative optical imaging methods using fluorescent dyes and other tissue diagnostic aids to used intraoperatively.
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Stummer, W., Koch, R., Valle, R.D. et al. Intraoperative fluorescence diagnosis in the brain: a systematic review and suggestions for future standards on reporting diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Acta Neurochir 161, 2083–2098 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-019-04007-y
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