Radiomics Analysis of PET and CT Components of PET/CT Imaging Integrated with Clinical Parameters: Application to Prognosis for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

• Published in: Molecular imaging and biology Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 954 - 964
• Main Authors: Lv, Wenbing, Yuan, Qingyu, Wang, Quanshi, Ma, Jianhua, Feng, Qianjin, Chen, Wufan, Rahmim, Arman, Lu, Lijun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.10.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Cohort Studies; Computed tomography; Disease-Free Survival; Feature extraction; Female; Fluorine isotopes; Glucose; Humans; Imaging; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Medical imaging; Medical prognosis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metastases; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma - diagnosis; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma - diagnostic imaging; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma - pathology; Neoplasm Staging; Parameters; Patients; Positron emission; Positron emission tomography; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Radiology; Radiomics; Regression analysis; Regression models; Research Article; Throat cancer; Tomography; Training; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Clinical parameter; Prognosis; F]FDG PET/CT; [; Radiomics; [18F]FDG PET/CT

Purpose To investigate the prognostic performance of radiomics features, as extracted from positron emission tomography (PET) and X-ray computed tomography (CT) components of baseline 2-deoxy-2-[ 18 F]fluoro-D-glucose ([ 18 F]FDG) PET/CT images and integrated with clinical parameters, in patients wi...