Texture analysis of magnetic resonance image to differentiate benign from malignant myxoid soft tissue tumors: A retrospective comparative study.

ABSTRACT: It is important to differentiate between benign and malignant myxoid tumors to establish the treatment plan, determine the optimal surgical extent, and plan postoperative surveillance, but differentiation may be complicated by imaging-feature overlap. Texture analysis is used for quantitative assessment of imaging characteristics based on mathematically calculated pixel heterogeneity and has been applied to the discrimination of benign from malignant soft tissue tumors (STTs). In this study, we aimed to assess the diagnostic value of the texture features of conventional magnetic resonance images for the differentiation of benign from malignant myxoid STTs. Magnetic resonance images of 39 patients with histologically confirmed myxoid STTs of the extremities were analyzed. Qualitative featur

SUBMITTER: Chang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9119440 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature