CT features and histogram analysis of non-contrast images for differentiating malignant and benign mediastinal lymph nodes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

• Pakorn Prakaikietikul ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pakorn Prakaikietikul, Yutthaphan Wannasopha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  ⨯
• Yutthaphan Wannasopha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pakorn Prakaikietikul, Yutthaphan Wannasopha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wyutthaphan@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6727-0828

  ⨯
• Juntima Euathrongchit ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JE and AT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  ⨯
• Apichat Tantraworasin

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JE and AT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Statistic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7913-2799

  ⨯