Radiomics and anaesthetic planning: Quantitative imaging as a new frontier in preoperative risk assessment

Table 1 Search strategy used for the narrative review

Database	Search string/field tags	Date range	Limits/filters
PubMed	[Radiomic* (tiab) OR radiomics (tiab) OR “quantitative imaging”(tiab) OR “texture analysis”(tiab)] AND [CT (tiab) OR “computed tomography”(tiab) OR MRI (tiab) OR “magnetic resonance imaging”(tiab) OR PET (tiab)] AND [body composition (tiab) OR sarcopenia(tiab) OR myosteatosis (tiab) OR visceral adiposity (tiab) OR liver (tiab) OR cardiac (tiab) OR pulmonary (tiab) OR renal (tiab) OR vascular (tiab) OR airway (tiab)] AND [perioperative (tiab) OR postoperative (tiab) OR surgical outcome (tiab) OR anaesthe* (tiab) OR anesthe* (tiab) OR “risk prediction” (tiab) OR “machine learning” (tiab)]	2012/01/01-2026/02/28	English language; humans
Scopus	TITLE-ABS-KEY (radiomic* OR “quantitative imaging”) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (CT OR MRI OR PET) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (“body composition” OR sarcopenia OR airway OR vascular OR cardiac OR pulmonary OR liver OR renal) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (perioperative OR postoperative OR anaesthesia OR anesthesia OR “machine learning”)	2012-2026	English; article, review
Web of Science	TS = (radiomic* OR “quantitative imaging”) AND TS = (CT OR MRI OR PET) AND TS = (“body composition” OR sarcopenia OR airway OR vascular OR cardiac OR pulmonary OR liver OR renal) AND TS = (perioperative OR postoperative OR anaesthesia OR anesthesia OR “machine learning”)	2012-2026	English; core collection
Google scholar	Radiomics OR “quantitative imaging” AND perioperative OR anaesthesia OR anesthesia AND “body composition” OR sarcopenia OR airway OR vascular	2012-2026	Title/keyword search; first 200 results screened by relevance