Evaluation and prediction of therapeutic response for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma receiving stereotactic body radiotherapy using serial computed tomography scans and radiomics

Department of Radiation Oncology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan; Department of Radiology, TriService General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Contributions: (I) Conception and design: YH Dai; (II) Administrative support: WY Huang; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: WY Huang, CH Lo; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: YH Dai, CH Lo; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: YH Dai, PC Shen, YF Wang; (VI) Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors. Correspondence to: Wen-Yen Huang, MD. Department of Radiation Oncology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Chengong Rd., Sec. 2, Neihu, Taipei 114, Taiwan. Email: hwyyi@yahoo.com.tw; Chieh-Sheng Lu, MD. Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Email: chengsem@gmail.com.