Potential of radiomics analysis and machine learning for predicting brain metastasis in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients.

Journal: Clinical radiology
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Abstract

AIM: To explore the potential of utilising radiomics analysis and machine-learning models that incorporate intratumoural and peritumoural regions of interest (ROIs) for predicting brain metastasis (BM) in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients.

Authors

  • S Yichu
    Department of Radiation Oncology, The First People's Hospital of Lianyungang/ Lianyungang Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, 222000, China.
  • L Fei
    Department of Radiation Oncology, The First People's Hospital of Lianyungang/ Lianyungang Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, 222000, China.
  • L Ying
    Department of Pathology, the Fourth Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot 010080, China.
  • X Youyou
    Department of Radiation Oncology, The First People's Hospital of Lianyungang/ Lianyungang Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, 222000, China. Electronic address: xia.youyou@njmu.edu.cn.