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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep Treatment Response Assessment and Prediction of Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases
Evaluating treatment response is essential in patients who develop colorectal liver metastases to decide the necessity for second-line treatment or the admissibility for surgery. Currently, RECIST1.1 is the mo...
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Article
Prediction of recurrence after surgery in colorectal cancer patients using radiomics from diagnostic contrast-enhanced computed tomography: a two-center study
To assess the value of contrast-enhanced (CE) diagnostic CT scans characterized through radiomics as predictors of recurrence for patients with stage II and III colorectal cancer in a two-center context.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of Importance Estimators in Deep Learning Classifiers for Computed Tomography
Deep learning has shown superb performance in detecting objects and classifying images, ensuring a great promise for analyzing medical imaging. Translating the success of deep learning to medical imaging, in w...
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Article
Prognostic factors for stage III colon cancer in patients 80 years of age and older
Oncological strategies in the elderly population are debated. The objective of this study was to assess the factors predictive of poor prognosis in elderly patients with stage III colon cancer.
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Article
Are colorectal cancer patients at risk for COVID-19 infection during the postoperative period? The Covid-GRECCAR study
During the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer patients have been regarded as having a high risk of severe events if they are infected with SARS-CoV-2, particularly those under medical or surgical treatment. The aim of ...
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Open AccessRevisiting the identification of tumor sub-volumes predictive of residual uptake after (chemo)radiotherapy: influence of segmentation methods on 18F-FDG PET/CT images
Our aim was to evaluate the impact of the accuracy of image segmentation techniques on establishing an overlap between pre-treatment and post-treatment functional tumour volumes in 18FDG-PET/CT imaging. Simulated...
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Open AccessRadiogenomics-based cancer prognosis in colorectal cancer
Radiogenomics aims at investigating the relationship between imaging radiomic features and gene expression alterations. This study addressed the potential prognostic complementary value of contrast enhanced co...
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Open AccessHistopathological factors help to predict lymph node metastases more efficiently than extra-nodal recurrences in submucosa invading pT1 colorectal cancer
The therapeutic management of patients with endoscopic resection of colorectal cancer invading the submucosa (i.e. pT1 CRC) depends on the balance between the risk of cancer relapse and the risk of surgery-relate...
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Article
Conversion of Vertical Banded Gastroplasty to Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: a Step-By-Step Teaching Video
Vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) has been demonstrated to be disappointing for long-term weight loss and quality of life (Br J Surg 100:222–230, 2013). Laparoscopic revisional gastric bypass has been found t...
