Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tran WT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7668124 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Future science OA 20200904 9
<h4>Aim</h4>We investigated quantitative ultrasound (QUS) in patients with node-positive head and neck malignancies for monitoring responses to radical radiotherapy (RT).<h4>Materials & methods</h4>QUS spectral and texture parameters were acquired from metastatic lymph nodes 24 h, 1 and 4 weeks after starting RT. K-nearest neighbor and naive-Bayes machine-learning classifiers were used to build prediction models for each time point. Response was detected after 3 months of RT, and patients were c ...[more]