Journal
RADIOLOGIA MEDICA
Volume 124, Issue 9, Pages 804-811Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-019-01028-6
Keywords
Head and neck imaging; Computed tomography; Oropharyngeal cancer; Human papillomavirus; Texture analysis
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The aim of this study is to find a correlation between tumoral heterogeneity of squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx and human papillomavirus (HPV) status and to determine whether analysis of texture features of primary lesion on contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) images can be useful in predicting the HPV positivity. Fifty patients with diagnosis of oropharyngeal carcinoma and pre-treatment CECT were included; tumoral heterogeneity of each lesion was evaluated by extracting quantitative texture parameters of first and higher orders. T test and logistic regression were conducted to evaluate the effects of different textural characteristics. There were 35 HPV+ and 15 HPV- lesions. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences were seen in multiple higher-order extracted parameters. The logistic regression model correctly classified lesions with an accuracy of 95.2%. CT texture analysis of primary oropharyngeal cancer may be used as a tool for predicting the HPV status.
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