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This study investigated whether longitudinal cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)\u2013based delta-radiomics of the supraglottic region can provide early indication of 6\u201312 month post-radiotherapy dysphagia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Forty-three patients with HPV+ OPSCC treated with definitive radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy underwent daily CBCT imaging. Forty-three radiomic features were extracted from the supraglottic region of interest, volume-adjusted where appropriate, averaged weekly, and transformed using a ratio-to-baseline formulation anchored to the first treatment-day CBCT. Spearman correlation filtering (|\u03c1| &amp;gt; 0.8) reduced redundancy prior to Random Forest ranking using out-of-bag permutation importance. Logistic regression models were constructed using incrementally increasing feature subsets across individual weeks and grouped multi-week CBCT temporal windows. Model performance was evaluated using repeated random two-thirds resampling with 1000 iterations, and discrimination was quantified by the mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve with 95% percentile confidence intervals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study cohort included 43 patients with HPV+ OPSCC treated with definitive radiotherapy. Predictive signal emerged early during treatment. The Weeks 1\u20134 model achieved a mean area under the curve of 0.779 (95% confidence interval: 0.714\u20130.812) using three features, outperforming the Week 2 model (0.728) and demonstrating comparable discrimination to the Weeks 1\u20136 model (0.795) with greater parsimony. Global skewness was consistently the highest-ranked predictor across temporal windows.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Supraglottic CBCT-based delta-radiomics demonstrates an early signal associated with post-radiotherapy dysphagia in HPV+ OPSCC. A ratio-to-baseline longitudinal framework combined with weekly aggregation enabled robust modeling while preserving interpretability. 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