Radiomic machine-learning classifiers for prognostic biomarkers of head and neck cancer

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Parmar, Chintan ^a,b   Grossmann, Patrick ^a,c   Rietveld, Derek ^d   Rietbergen, Michelle M ^d   Lambin, Philippe ^b   Aerts, Hugo J W L ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Computational science; Machine learning; Quantitative imaging; Radiology; Radiomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFIER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84954549862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00272     Document Type: Article

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