Using ultrasound radiomics analysis to diagnose cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Min LinXiaofeng TangLan CaoYing LiaoYafang ZhangJian-Hua ZhouPublished in: European radiology (2022)
• Radiomics analysis of gray-scale ultrasound images can be used to develop an effective radiomics model for the diagnosis of cervical lymph node metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. • Radiomics model combined with general ultrasound features performed better than the clinical model in differentiating cervical lymph node metastases from benign lymphadenopathy.
Keyphrases
- lymph node metastasis
- squamous cell carcinoma
- papillary thyroid
- lymph node
- magnetic resonance imaging
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- ultrasound guided
- newly diagnosed
- deep learning
- contrast enhanced
- contrast enhanced ultrasound
- peritoneal dialysis
- magnetic resonance
- prognostic factors
- radiation therapy
- optical coherence tomography
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- computed tomography
- sentinel lymph node
- patient reported