Publications by authors named "Liqiao Hou"

Purpose: To establish a radiomics model using radiomics features from different region of interests (ROI) based on dosimetry-related regions in enhanced computed tomography (CT) simulated images to predict radiation pneumonitis (RP) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: Our retrospective study was conducted based on a cohort of 236 NSCLC patients (59 of them with RP≥2) who were treated in 2 institutions and divided into the primary cohort (n = 182,46 of them with RP≥2) and external validation cohort (n = 54,13 of them with RP≥2). Radiomic features extracted from three ROIs were defined as the whole lung (WL), the dose volume histogram (DVH) of the lung V20 (V20_Lung) and the DVH of the V30 of lung minus the planning target volume (PTV) (V30 Lung-PTV).

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  • - Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma typically undergo 6-7 weeks of radiotherapy, often leading to weight loss and tumor changes.
  • - Adaptive radiotherapy uses image-guided technology to adjust treatment plans based on real-time imaging, potentially reducing side effects and improving patient quality of life.
  • - Despite the advantages, the use of adaptive radiotherapy in treating nasopharyngeal carcinoma is still limited, and the review highlights its clinical benefits, challenges, and future directions.
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Purpose: to develop a radiogenomic model on the basis of F-FDG PET/CT radiomics and clinical-parameter EGFR for predicting PFS stratification in lung-cancer patients after SBRT treatment.

Methods: A total of 123 patients with lung cancer who had undergone F-FDG PET/CT examination before SBRT from September 2014 to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients' PET/CT images were manually segmented, and the radiomic features were extracted.

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Background: Although adaptive radiotherapy (ART) has many advantages, ART is not universal in the clinical appliance due to the consumption of a lot of labor, and economic burden. It is necessary to explore a CT stimulation-based radiomics model for screening who can get more benefits from ART in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Method: 183 cases of NSCLC patients receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy with an adaptive approach were enrolled as a primary cohort, while 28 cases from another hospital served as an independent external validation cohort.

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Background: Weak correlation between gamma passing rates and dose differences in target volumes and organs at risk (OARs) has been reported in several studies. Evaluation on the differences between planned dose-volume histogram (DVH) and reconstructed DVH from measurement was adopted and incorporated into patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA). However, it is difficult to develop a methodology allowing the evaluation of errors on DVHs accurately and quickly.

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Objective: We aimed to investigate whether enhanced CT-based radiomics can predict micropapillary pattern (MPP) of lung invasive adenocarcinoma (IAC) in the pre-op phase and to develop an individual diagnostic predictive model for MPP in IAC.

Methods: 170 patients who underwent complete resection for pathologically confirmed lung IAC were included in our study. Of these 121 were used as a training cohort and the other 49 as a test cohort.

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Background: To quantitatively evaluate lung damage after treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and compare that of SBRT only treatment.

Methods: Eligible patients from an IRB-approved prospective clinical trial had one month of EGFRTKIs treatment followed by SBRT (TKI + SBRT) and with 3-month follow-up high resolution CT. NSCLC patients treated with SBRT alone during the same time period without EGFR-TKIs or other systemic therapies were identified as controls.

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Purpose: Although intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is now a preferred option for conventionally fractionated RT in lung cancer, the commonly used cutoff values of the dosimetric constraints are still mainly derived from the data using three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT). We aimed to compare the prediction performance among different dosimetric parameters for acute radiation pneumonitis (RP) in patients with lung cancer received IMRT.

Methods: A total of 236 patients treated with IMRT were retrospectively reviewed in two independent groups of lung cancer from January 2014 to August 2018.

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