Pre-treatment radiomic features predict individual lymph node failure for head and neck cancer patients

Background and purpose To develop and validate a pre-treatment radiomics-based prediction model to identify pathological lymph nodes (pLNs) at risk of failures after definitive radiotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients. Materials and methods Training and validation cohorts consisted of 165 patients with 558 pLNs and 112 patients with 467 pLNs, respectively. All patients were primarily treated with definitive radiotherapy,...