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Predicting severe radiation-induced oral mucositis in head and neck cancer patients using integrated baseline CT radiomic, dosimetry, and clinical features: A machine learning approach.

Razieh Agheli, Zahra Siavashpour, Reza Reiazi, Samira Azghandi, Susan Cheraghi, Reza Paydar

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Radiomic and dosiomic machine learning models for predicting radiation-induced oral mucositis in head and neck cancer: a systematic review.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  3. The prevalence of oral mucositis after radiotherapy in patients with Head and Neck Cancer and its associated factors: a meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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6 authors.

Razieh AgheliRadiation Sciences Department, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Zahra SiavashpourDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shohada-e Tajrish Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reza ReiaziDepartment of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Samira AzghandiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shohada-e Tajrish Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Susan CheraghiRadiation Sciences Department, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reza PaydarRadiation Sciences Department, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: To establish the early prediction models of radiation-induced oral mucositis (RIOM) based on baseline CT-based radiomic features (RFs), dosimetric data, and clinical features by machine learning models for head and neck cancer (HNC) patients. Methods: In this single-center prospective study, 49 HNCs treated with curative intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) were enrolled. Baseline CT images ( Results: Among extracted features, the top 10 RFs, the top 5 dose-volume features, and the top 5 clinical features were selected using mRMR method. The model exploiting the integrated features (10-radiomics + 5-dosimetric + 5-clinical) achieved the best prediction with AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, precision, and F1-measure values of 91.7 %, 90.0 %, 83.0 % 100.0 %, and 91.0 %, respectively. The model developed using baseline CT RFs alone provided the best performance compared to dose-volume features or clinical features alone, with an AUC of 87.0 %. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the integration of baseline CT radiomic features with dosimetric and clinical features showed promising potential to improve the performance of machine learning models in early prediction of RIOM. The ultimate goal is to personalize radiotherapy for HNC patients.

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Head and neck cancerMachine learningOral mucositisRadiomicsToxicity prediction

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PMID38317933
PMCPMC10839875

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