Research Article
Convolutional Neural Networks Promising in Lung Cancer T-Parameter Assessment on Baseline FDG-PET/CT
Table 2
Patients’ characteristics.
| Characteristics | Patients, (%) |
| Age (year): mean: 69 ± 9, median: 69 (range: 36–112) |
| Sex | Male | 316 (67) | Female | 156 (33) |
| Histology | Adenocarcinoma | 317 (67) | Squamous cell carcinoma | 155 (33) |
| TNM | T1 | 159 (34) | T2 | 194 (41) | T3 | 79 (17) | T4 | 40 (8) | N0 | 259 (55) | N1 | 94 (20) | N2 | 103 (22) | N3 | 16 (3) | M0 | 472 (100) |
| Stage | I | 193 (41) | Ia | 115 (24) | Ib | 78 (17) |
| II | 116 (25) | IIa | 66 (14) | IIb | 50 (11) |
| III | 163 (34) | IIIa | 129 (27) | IIIb | 34 (7) |
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The stage was clinically assessed in 97 patients (20%), while in the remaining 375 cases (80%), it was pathologically assessed. |