Research progress on application of radiomics in radiotherapy of head and neck cancer

VernacularTitle:影像组学在头颈部肿瘤放疗的研究进展
Author: Xiaobin LIU ; Wen SHEN
From: Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2021;30(1):98-101
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Head and neck cancer presents with complex anatomy and high intratumoralheterogeneity. Radiotherapy is one of the main treatments. The therapeutic strategy and prognostic evaluation in head and neck cancer patients traditionally depend on TNM stage, lacking of individual information. Radiomics can extracts high-throughput image features relevant to the biology of tumors, which provides a non-invasive and quantitative method to evaluate the overall tumor heterogeneity and also offers a novel perspective for precision radiotherapy. The research progresses on the application and chanllenges of radiomics in the radiotherapy for head and neck cancer were summarized in this review.