Radiomics in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: current progress and challenges / 中华核医学与分子影像杂志

ABSTRACT

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of the head and neck. In clinical practice, imaging examination plays an important role in the diagnosis, staging and risk assessment of NPC. However, it is difficult to distinguish the heterogeneity within the tumor, so the ability to classify and predict NPC is limited. Radiomics can extract a large amount of data from medical images for quantitative analysis, which further improves the ability of imaging features to diagnose and predict tumors. The purpose of this review is to introduce the application value of radiomics of different imaging modality such as CT, MRI and PET in differential diagnosis, predictions of treatment response, prognosis and radiotherapy complications of NPC.