Abstract #1813

Value of DCE-MRI and texture analysis in preoperative prediction of lymph node metastasis in rectal cancer

Yue Lv¹, Ailian Liu¹, Jingjun Wu¹, Anliang Chen¹, Xinying Li¹, and Yan Guo²

¹The First Affiliated Hospital of DaLian Medical University, Dalian, China, ²GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China

Rectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world.DCE-MRI is better at diagnosis and evaluation of rectal cancer.Texture analysis is a non-invasive analysis method based on image pixel level. It can reflect the heterogeneity of tumors by quantifying the distribution of pixels and the relationship between pixels.

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