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Table 5 Applications of radiomics-based recurrence prediction

From: Artificial intelligence-driven radiomics study in cancer: the role of feature engineering and modeling

Image modality

Number of patients

Cancer

Target

Number of radiomics features

Commercial or open-source software

Method

References

CT

188

HNSCC

Cancer recurrence rate

107

PyRadiomics, 3D Slicer, Matlab

ML: LOOCV

SM: Chi-square test

DL: Deep learning artificial neural networks

[28]

FDG-PET

174

OPC

The risk of local failure

2–3

Matlab, Stata/MP

ML: LOOCV, Cox proportional-hazards regression, Fine and Gray’s proportional sub-hazards model, LR, fivefold CV

SM: Kaplan–Meier analysis, log-rank test, Spearman correlation analysis

[29]

CT

465

OPC

Local recurrence

2

Matlab

ML: Bootstrap resampled recursive partitioning analysis, Regression model, DT, Cox proportional hazards model

SM: Log-rank and Wilcoxon test, Effect likelihood ratio test, Wald test

[36]

MRI

285

HNSCC

Local tumor recurrence

20

MITK, SPM, Matlab, R

ML: LASSO, tenfold CV

SM: t-test, Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test, Delong test, Spearman correlation analysis

[37]

US

83

Breast cancer

Recurrence

4

Matlab, SPSS

ML: KNN, SVM

SM: Shapiro–Wilk test, t-test, Mann–Whitney test, Kaplan–Meier product-limit method

[38]

  1. CT computed tomography, MRI magnetic resonance imaging, FDG fluorodeoxyglucose, PET positron emission tomography, US ultrasonography, ML machine learning, SM statistical method, DL deep learning, HNSCC head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, OPC oropharyngeal cancer, LOOCV leave one out cross validation, LR logistic regression, CV cross validation, DT decision tree, LASSO least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, KNN K-nearest neighbors, SVM support vector machine