Fig. 5.
Overall survival and total MTVAI. Patients with a total MTVAI smaller than 2.3 ml have significantly longer survival compared to those with greater MTVAI (a). Overall survival (OS) is shown as median survival time in months (a) or in actual survival time from time of PET till death (c). Two exemplary cases of patients with low (b) and high MTVAI (c) were shown; additionally, physiological FDG uptake is marked in green, pathological in red. Patients shown in panel b have not deceased (cen., censored). Note that patients with visually similar MTVAI (b right image and c left image) show different outcomes and were grouped in the low and high MTVAI groups respectively