Comparison of PET and CT radiomics for prediction of local tumor control in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Marta BogowiczOliver RiestererLuisa Sabrina StarkGabriela StuderJan UnkelbachMatthias GuckenbergerStephanie Tanadini-Lang

Published in: Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) (2017)

Both CT and PET radiomics showed equally good discriminative power for local tumor control modeling in HNSCC. However, CT-based predictions overestimated the local control rate in the poor prognostic validation cohort, and thus, we recommend to base the local control modeling on the 18F-FDG PET.

Keyphrases

positron emission tomography
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
pet ct
image quality
pet imaging
dual energy
magnetic resonance imaging
lymph node metastasis
squamous cell carcinoma