Personalizing Bone Tumor Ablation: Decision Models from the University Hospital of Strasbourg.

StudyCardiovascular and interventional radiology· Aug 2026

Roberto Luigi Cazzato, Francois Severac, Dominik A Steffen … Afshin Gangi

Interventional RadiologyStudyTreatmentQ1IF 1.9

Decision-tree and expert-based models chose ablation type with similar accuracy.

Roberto Luigi Cazzato … Afshin Gangi

Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · Aug 2026 · Q1 in Radiology

Purpose

To describe the clinical decision-making underlying the selection of the percutaneous ablation modality for bone tumors.

Methods

Consecutive patients with primary and metastatic bone tumors were retrospectively identified.

n = 926 tumors

Results

computer and expert selected the right ablation about equally often

81.8%

Decision-tree accuracy

80.5%

Experts-based accuracy

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Conclusion · 1 of 2

The experts-derived and the decision-tree models demonstrated comparable overall accuracy despite relying on the different decision-making.

Conclusion · 2 of 2

Prospective multicenter studies are required to determine which of these two approaches is more suited for implementation in clinical practice.