Improving initial nodal staging of T3 rectal cancer using quantitative image features

Affiliations

• ¹ Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
• ² Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
• ³ School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
• ⁴ Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Yunnan Cancer Center, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
• ⁵ Department of Pathology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Yunnan Cancer Center, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
• ⁶ School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
• ⁷ Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, School of Medicine and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.