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ReviewPancreas2020

Texture Analysis: An Emerging Clinical Tool for Pancreatic Lesions.

Adam M Awe, Victoria R Rendell, Meghan G Lubner, Emily R Winslow

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Review in Pancreas, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Adam M Awe
Victoria R RendellFrom the Departments of Surgery.
Meghan G LubnerRadiology, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
Emily R WinslowMedstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USMedStar Georgetown University Hospital · US

Funding

Direct Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation of Colorectal Liver Metastases with MR-Compatible Sectioning and Localization DeviceF32CA232352 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RENDELL, VICTORIA · 2018 to 2018
$59k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA232352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiologic characterization of pancreatic lesions is currently limited. Computed tomography is insensitive in detecting and characterizing small pancreatic lesions. Moreover, heterogeneity of many pancreatic lesions makes determination of malignancy challenging. As a result, invasive diagnostic testing is frequently used to characterize pancreatic lesions but often yields indeterminate results. Computed tomography texture analysis (CTTA) is an emerging noninvasive computational tool that quantifies gray-scale pixels/voxels and their spatial relationships within a region of interest. In nonpancreatic lesions, CTTA has shown promise in diagnosis, lesion characterization, and risk stratification, and more recently, pancreatic applications of CTTA have been explored. This review outlines the emerging role of CTTA in identifying, characterizing, and risk stratifying pancreatic lesions. Although recent studies show the clinical potential of CTTA of the pancreas, a clear understanding of which specific texture features correlate with high-grade dysplasia and predict survival has not yet been achieved. Further multidisciplinary investigations using strong radiologic-pathologic correlation are needed to establish a role for this noninvasive diagnostic tool.

Indexed as

Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedTomography, X-Ray ComputedDisease-Free SurvivalHumansNeoplasm GradingPancreatic NeoplasmsPredictive Value of TestsRisk AssessmentRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID32168248
PMCPMC7135958
OpenAlexW3011506619

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