Reading brain scans to judge a meningioma's grade before surgery
Original title: Ki-67/p53-associated angiogenic heterogeneity for preoperative WHO grading of meningiomas: a spatial habitat radiomics study.
How far along is this research?
- Lab cells
- Animals
- Review
- Tested in people
This was tested in people. That is the most reliable kind of research we share.
It was built from past scans of real patients, but doctors do not use it yet.
The short version
Researchers built a computer tool that studies brain scans to judge how fast a tumor may grow.
What was studied. Researchers looked back at brain scans from 400 people with a meningioma. 261 had a grade I tumor. 139 had a grade II or III tumor. The team split each tumor into three parts on the scan, then built computer models to guess the grade.
What they found. The model that used the three separate tumor parts did best. It scored better than a model that treated the tumor as one whole piece. It also beat a model built only from clinic and scan notes. In the test group of 120 people, the three-part model still scored best. But that lead was too small for the team to be sure of it.
What this means, and what it doesn't
What it could mean: One day, a scan might help doctors judge a tumor's grade before surgery. That could help plan care sooner. For now, the grade still comes from tissue checked after surgery.
What it doesn't mean: This does not mean a new test is ready for you. It is a computer tool built from old scans at one hospital. It was not tried out in a trial, and no one's care was based on it. It is not a treatment, and it is not a cure.
Source: PubMed, August 3, 2026 · Read the original
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