Reliability of PET/CT shape and heterogeneity features in functional and morphologic components of non-small cell lung cancer tumors: A repeatability analysis in a prospective multicenter cohort

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 406-411

  Desseroit, Marie Charlotte ^a,b   Tixier, Florent ^b,c   Weber, Wolfgang A ^d   Siegel, Barry A ^e   Le Rest, Catherine Cheze ^b,c   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a   Hatt, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

PET CT; Radiomics; Repeatability; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85011710226     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: 2159662X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.116.180919     Document Type: Article

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