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Quantitative assessment of normal submandibular glands and submandibular sialadenitis using CT texture analysis: A
Kotaro Ito1, Hirotaka Muraoka1, Naohisa Hirahara1
1Department of Radiology, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Chiba, Japan.
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess normal submandibular glands and submandibular sialadenitis (SS) using computed tomography (CT) texture analysis as part of radiomics quantitative analysis.
Study Design:
In total, 31 patients with unilateral SS who underwent head and neck magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT and were retrospectively reviewed. Submandibular glands with abnormal signals (STIR: high, T2-weighted image: high, T1-weighted image: low) on MRI were identified as SS. The radiomics features of the contralateral normal submandibular glands and SS were analyzed using an open-access software, MaZda Version 3.3. Sixteen radiomics features were selected with Fisher and probability of error and average correlation coefficient methods in MaZda from 279 original parameters calculated for each of the normal and SS glands. The results were statistically analyzed with the Wilcoxon rank sum test.
Results:
One gray-level co-occurrence matrix feature and 9 gray-level run length matrix features displayed significant differences between normal submandibular glands and glands with SS (P < .05).
Conclusions:
CT texture analysis was able to quantitatively distinguish between normal and diseased submandibular glands. It therefore may have the potential to detect SS.
