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Table 5 Correlations between the change of tumor volume and ADC parameters during CCRT in patients with cervical cancers

From: Apparent diffusion coefficient histogram shape analysis for monitoring early response in patients with advanced cervical cancers undergoing concurrent chemo-radiotherapy

Δ Parameter

Correlation coefficient

P

Change of tumor volume

skewness

0.872

<0.001*

kurtosis

0.947

<0.001*

s-sDav

−0.234

0.231

width

−0.309

0.109

standard deviation

−0.203

0.300

first-order entropy

0.147

0.456

entropy(H)mean

−0.055

0.782

  1. Note: *, P < 0.05. Δ Parameter = parameter values at time point 4 – parameter values at time point 1