Predicting pathologic tumor response to chemoradiotherapy with histogram distances characterizing longitudinal changes in 18F-FDG uptake patterns

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Tan, Shan ^a,b   Zhang, Hao ^b   Zhang, Yongxue ^c   Chen, Wengen ^b   D'Souza, Warren D ^b   Lu, Wei ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Histogram distance; Tumor response

Indexed keywords

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISEASES; FORECASTING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUMBER THEORY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEXTURES; TUMORS;

ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; HISTOGRAM DISTANCE; MAXIMUM STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; SQUARED EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; TUMOR RESPONSE;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG UPTAKE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GLYCOLYSIS; HARALICK TEXTURE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PET SCANNER; PHYSICIAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANK SUM TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; METABOLISM; SCINTISCANNING; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885822247     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4820445     Document Type: Article

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