Publications by authors named "Hua-Li Ma"
Background: Lymphatic metastasis is the major challenge in the treatment of penile cancer. The prognosis of individuals with lymphatic metastasis is extremely poor. Therefore, early identification of disease progression and lymphatic metastasis is an urgent task for researchers in penile cancer worldwide.
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- The study focuses on predicting distant metastasis (DM) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) using detailed MRI reports, which is essential for improving treatment outcomes.
- Researchers analyzed data from 792 non-distant metastatic NPC patients and identified 469 imaging variables to develop predictive models using gradient boosting tree (GBT) techniques.
- The results showed that the GBT models, particularly those focusing on factors like the number of metastatic cervical nodes, had better predictive accuracy (AUC of 0.76) compared to the traditional tumor node-staging system (AUC of 0.67).