BMC Oral Health
MRI-based radiomics combined with clinical indicators for preoperative prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Abstract Objective To develop and validate a nomogram that integrates magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiomic features with clinical indicators, including the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and depth of invasion (DOI), for the preoperative prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Methods This retrospective study included 148 OSCC patients, randomly split 7:3 into training cohort ( n = 103) and test cohort ( n = 45). Two head and neck radiologists delineated tu …