Open AccessEarly prediction of acute xerostomia during radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal cancer based on delta radiomics from CT images
Author(s) -
Yanxia Liu,
Hongyu Shi,
ShuChun Huang,
Xiaochuan Chen,
Huimin Zhou,
Hui Chang,
Yunfei Xia,
Guohua Wang,
Xin Yang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-4292
pISSN - 2223-4306
DOI - 10.21037/qims.2019.07.08
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , radiomics , head and neck cancer , nuclear medicine , cancer , feature (linguistics) , radiology , linguistics , philosophy
Acute xerostomia is the most common side effect of radiation therapy (RT) for head and neck (H&N) malignancies. Investigating radiation-induced changes of computed tomography (CT) radiomics in parotid glands (PGs) and saliva amount (SA) can predict acute xerostomia during the RT for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC).