[Advances in head and neck squamous cell cancer research based on radiomics]

Radiomics refers to extract advanced quantitative features in radiological images in a high-throughput way, to invert the features into extensible data with the help of mathematical algorithms, and to establish descriptive and predictive models of tumors. It has important value in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of tumors. As an entirely new field, radiomics becomes the research hotspot of clinical medicine and biomedical engineering because of its objective, holistic, non-invasive characteristics. Head and neck squamous cell cancer is one of the common malignant tumors. Radiomics is gradually applied to the study of head and neck squamous cell cancer. This article reviews the research progress of radiomics and its application in head and neck cancer.