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SUBMITTER: Palumbo B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555302 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palumbo Barbara B Bianconi Francesco F Palumbo Isabella I Fravolini Mario Luca ML Minestrini Matteo M Nuvoli Susanna S Stazza Maria Lina ML Rondini Maria M Spanu Angela A
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 20200915 9
In this paper, we investigate the role of shape and texture features from 18F-FDG PET/CT to discriminate between benign and malignant solitary pulmonary nodules. To this end, we retrospectively evaluated cross-sectional data from 111 patients (64 males, 47 females, age = 67.5 ± 11.0) all with histologically confirmed benign (n=39) or malignant (n=72) solitary pulmonary nodules. Eighteen three-dimensional imaging features, including conventional, texture, and shape features from PET and CT were t ...[more]