CT texture analysis in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: A potential imaging biomarker for treatment response and prognosis.
Choong Guen CheeYoung Hoon KimKyoung Ho LeeYoon Jin LeeJi Hoon ParkHye Seung LeeSoyeon AhnBohyoung KimPublished in: PloS one (2017)
Homogeneous texture features are associated with better neoadjuvant CRT response and higher DFS in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.
Keyphrases
- locally advanced
- rectal cancer
- contrast enhanced
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- phase ii study
- squamous cell carcinoma
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- radiation therapy
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- heart failure
- image quality
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- human health
- climate change
- left ventricular
- study protocol