Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28869399›Full record

SynthesisThe British journal of radiology2018

Clinical applications of textural analysis in non-small cell lung cancer.

Iain Phillips, Mazhar Ajaz, Veni Ezhil, Vineet Prakash, Sheaka Alobaidli, Sarah J McQuaid, Christopher South, James Scuffham, Andrew Nisbet, Philip Evans

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Synthesis in The British journal of radiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Iain Phillips1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Mazhar Ajaz1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Veni Ezhil1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Vineet Prakash1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Sheaka Alobaidli3 Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Sarah J McQuaid4 University College Hospital, London, UK.
Christopher South1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
James Scuffham1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Andrew Nisbet1 Royal Surrey County Hospital, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Philip Evans3 Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
University of Surrey · GBRoyal Surrey County Hospital · GBUniversity College Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Treatment pathways include regular cross-sectional imaging, generating large data sets which present intriguing possibilities for exploitation beyond standard visual interpretation. This additional data mining has been termed "radiomics" and includes semantic and agnostic approaches. Textural analysis (TA) is an example of the latter, and uses a range of mathematically derived features to describe an image or region of an image. Often TA is used to describe a suspected or known tumour. TA is an attractive tool as large existing image sets can be submitted to diverse techniques for data processing, presentation, interpretation and hypothesis testing with annotated clinical outcomes. There is a growing anthology of published data using different TA techniques to differentiate between benign and malignant lung nodules, differentiate tissue subtypes of lung cancer, prognosticate and predict outcome and treatment response, as well as predict treatment side effects and potentially aid radiotherapy planning. The aim of this systematic review is to summarize the current published data and understand the potential future role of TA in managing lung cancer.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedLung NeoplasmsPositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyTomography, X-Ray Computed

Identifiers

PMID28869399
PMCPMC5966204
OpenAlexW2750913979

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