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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2021

Functional Connectivity Density for Radiation Encephalopathy Prediction in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

Lin-Mei Zhao, Ya-Fei Kang, Jian-Ming Gao, Li Li, Rui-Ting Chen, Jun-Jie Zeng, You-Ming Zhang, Weihua Liao

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Lin-Mei ZhaoDepartment of Radiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Ya-Fei KangSchool of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Shanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Xi'an, China.
Jian-Ming GaoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Li LiState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Rui-Ting ChenDepartment of Radiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Jun-Jie ZengDepartment of Radiology, Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
You-Ming ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Weihua LiaoDepartment of Radiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Xiangya Hospital Central South University · CNCentral South University · CNHunan Children's Hospital · CNShaanxi Normal University · CNSun Yat-sen University · CNSun Yat-sen University Cancer Center · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diagnostic efficiency of radiation encephalopathy (RE) remains heterogeneous, and prediction of RE is difficult at the pre-symptomatic stage. We aimed to analyze the whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity density (FCD) of individuals with pre-symptomatic RE using multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) and explore its prediction efficiency. Resting data from NPC patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC; consisting of 20 pre-symptomatic RE subjects and 26 non-RE controls) were collected in this study. We used MVPA to classify pre-symptomatic RE subjects from non-RE controls based on FCD maps. Classifier performances were evaluated by accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and area under the characteristic operator curve. Permutation tests and leave-one-out cross-validation were applied for assessing classifier performance. MVPA was able to differentiate pre-symptomatic RE subjects from non-RE controls using global FCD as a feature, with a total accuracy of 89.13%. The temporal lobe as well as regions involved in the visual processing system, the somatosensory system, and the default mode network (DMN) revealed robust discrimination during classification. Our findings suggest a good classification efficiency of global FCD for the individual prediction of RE at a pre-symptomatic stage. Moreover, the discriminating regions may contribute to the underlying mechanisms of sensory and cognitive disturbances in RE.

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follow-upmachine learningmagnetic resonance imagingnasopharyngeal carcinomaradiotherapy

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