National Laboratories Excellence program (under the National Tumor Biology Laboratory
Project(NLP-17)
Radiological and nuclear medicine methods play a fundamental role in the diagnosis
and staging of patients with lung cancer. Imaging is essential in the detection, characterisation,
staging and follow-up of lung cancer. Due to the increasing evidence, low-dose chest
computed tomography (CT) screening for the early detection of lung cancer is being
introduced to the clinical routine in several countries. Radiomics and radiogenomics
are emerging fields reliant on artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis and personalised
risk stratification. Ultrasound- and CT-guided interventions are minimally invasive
methods for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary malignancies. In this review,
we put more emphasis on the new developments in the imaging of lung cancer.