A different overview of staging PET/CT images in patients with esophageal cancer: the role of textural analysis with machine learning methods.

Journal: Annals of nuclear medicine
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study evaluates the ability of several machine learning (ML) algorithms, developed using volumetric and texture data extracted from baseline F-FDG PET/CT studies performed initial staging of patient with esophageal cancer (EC), to predict survival and histopathology.

Authors

  • Nazlı Pınar Karahan Şen
    Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, İnciraltı mah. Mithatpaşa cad. no:1606 Balçova, Izmir, Turkey. drpinarkarahan@hotmail.com.
  • Ayşegül Aksu
    Başakşehir Çam ve Sakura City Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Gamze Çapa Kaya
    Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, İnciraltı mah. Mithatpaşa cad. no:1606 Balçova, Izmir, Turkey.