Research Article

Prediction of Overall Survival and Progression-Free Survival by the 18F-FDG PET/CT Radiomic Features in Patients with Primary Gastric Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Table 5

Multivariate analysis (computed tomography).

OSPFS
HR (95%CI) valueHR (95%CI) value

Histogram based
Kurtosis (≥101.9046 vs. <101.9046)11.791 (1.583–87.808)0.016
Shape based

Sphericity (≥0.6407 vs. <0.6407)11.390 (1.360–95.371)0.025

GLZLM
GLNU (≥90.9505 vs. <90.9505)6.934 (1.069–44.981)0.042
HGZE (≥9917.8935 vs. <9917.8935)9.805 (1.359–70.747)0.02411.504 (1.921–68.888)0.007

GLNU, gray-level nonuniformity for zone; HGZE, high gray-level zone emphasis; GLZLM, gray-level zone length matrix; PFS, progression-free survival; OS, overall survival; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval. Asterisk () indicates significance with a value of <0.05 (shown in bold).