Du, Dongyang
Lv, Wenbing
Lv, Jieqin
Chen, Xiaohui
Wu, Hubing
Rahmim, Arman
Lu, Lijun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7001-4892
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81871437, 12026601)
Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (2019A1515011104, 2020A1515110683, 2021A1515011676)
Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (2020M682792)
China Scholarship Council
Article History
Received: 5 July 2022
Revised: 11 August 2022
Accepted: 9 October 2022
First Online: 10 November 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Lijun Lu.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: From January 2013 to March 2019, 164 of 174 patients reported by our previous study [] were enrolled to differentiate between lung cancer and active pulmonary tuberculosis. This prior article analyzed diagnostic performance of PET/CT radiomics features combined with semantic features, whereas our current study reports on the effect of reconstruction kernels on radiomics features and feasibility of inter-image conversion based on deep learning towards improved reproducibility of radiomics features and performance of radiomics models.
: • retrospective• experimental• performed at one institution