Classification of superficial suspected lymph nodes: non-invasive radiomic model based on multiphase contrast-enhanced ultrasound for therapeutic options of lymphadenopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate determination of the types of lymphadenopathy is of great importance in disease diagnosis and treatment and is usually confirmed by pathological findings. Radiomics is a non-invasive tool that can extract quantitative information from medical images. Our study was designed to develop a non-invasive radiomic approach based on multiphase contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) images for the classification of different types of lymphadenopathy.

Methods

A total of 426 patients with superficial suspected lymph nodes (LNs) from three centres were grouped into a training cohort (n=190), an internal testing cohort (n=127), and an external testing cohort (n=109). The radiomic features were extracted from the prevascular phase, vascular phase, and postvascular phase o

SUBMITTER: Jiang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10895124 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature