CT-based intratumoral and peritumoral deep transfer learning features prediction of lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer.

Journal: Journal of X-ray science and technology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The main metastatic route for lung cancer is lymph node metastasis, and studies have shown that non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has a high risk of lymph node infiltration.

Authors

  • Tianyu Lu
    Department of Radiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing or The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China.
  • Jianbing Ma
    Department of Knee Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
  • Jiajun Zou
    Guangzhou Xinhua University, Guangzhou, China.
  • Chenxu Jiang
    Department of Radiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing or The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China.
  • Yangyang Li
    Institute of Urology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000, P. R. China.
  • Jun Han
    School of Basic Medical Sciences, Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medical College, Kunming 650500, China. Electronic address: hanzjn@126.com.