Editorial for “Radiomic Analysis of Pharmacokinetic Heterogeneity Within Tumor Based on the Unsupervised Decomposition of DCE‐MRI for Predicting Histological Characteristics of Breast Cancer”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wagner Diniz de Paula
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Dce Mri ◽  
Histological Characteristics

scholarly journals Diffusion tensor imaging on 3-T MRI breast: diagnostic performance in comparison to diffusion-weighted imaging

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Abdelhady ◽  
Amany Abdelbary ◽  
Ahmed H. Afifi ◽  
Alaa-eldin Abdelhamid ◽  
Hebatallah H. M. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Diffusion Tensor Imaging ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Diffusion Weighted Imaging ◽  
Diffusion Tensor ◽  
Breast Mri ◽  
Breast Lesions ◽  
Dce Mri ◽  
Additional Tool ◽  
Diffusion Weighted

Abstract Background Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among females. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) breast is highly sensitive (90%) in the detection of breast cancer. Despite its high sensitivity in detecting breast cancer, its specificity (72%) is moderate. Owing to 3-T breast MRI which has the advantage of a higher signal to noise ratio and shorter scanning time rather than the 1.5-T MRI, the adding of new techniques as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to breast MRI became more feasible. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) which tracks the diffusion of the tissue water molecule as well as providing data about the integrity of the cell membrane has been used as a valuable additional tool of DCE-MRI to increase its specificity. Based on DWI, more details about the microstructure could be detected using diffusion tensor imaging. The DTI applies diffusion in many directions so apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) will vary according to the measured direction raising its sensitivity to microstructure elements and cellular density. This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of DTI in the assessment of breast lesions in comparison to DWI. Results By analyzing the data of the 50 cases (31 malignant cases and 19 benign cases), the sensitivity and specificity of DWI in differentiation between benign and malignant lesions were about 90% and 63% respectively with PPV 90% and NPV 62%, while the DTI showed lower sensitivity and specificity about 81% and 51.7%, respectively, with PPV 78.9% and NPV 54.8% (P-value ≤ 0.05). Conclusion While the DWI is still the most established diffusion parameter, DTI may be helpful in the further characterization of tumor microstructure and differentiation between benign and malignant breast lesions.

Diagnosing breast cancer tumors using stacked ensemble model

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ahmet Haşim Yurttakal ◽  
Hasan Erbay ◽  
Türkan İkizceli ◽  
Seyhan Karaçavuş ◽  
Cenker Biçer
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Medical Imaging ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
False Negative ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Physical Sign ◽  
Ensemble Model ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Dce Mri

Breast cancer is the most common cancer that progresses from cells in the breast tissue among women. Early-stage detection could reduce death rates significantly, and the detection-stage determines the treatment process. Mammography is utilized to discover breast cancer at an early stage prior to any physical sign. However, mammography might return false-negative, in which case, if it is suspected that lesions might have cancer of chance greater than two percent, a biopsy is recommended. About 30 percent of biopsies result in malignancy that means the rate of unnecessary biopsies is high. So to reduce unnecessary biopsies, recently, due to its excellent capability in soft tissue imaging, Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) has been utilized to detect breast cancer. Nowadays, DCE-MRI is a highly recommended method not only to identify breast cancer but also to monitor its development, and to interpret tumorous regions. However, in addition to being a time-consuming process, the accuracy depends on radiologists’ experience. Radiomic data, on the other hand, are used in medical imaging and have the potential to extract disease characteristics that can not be seen by the naked eye. Radiomics are hard-coded features and provide crucial information about the disease where it is imaged. Conversely, deep learning methods like convolutional neural networks(CNNs) learn features automatically from the dataset. Especially in medical imaging, CNNs’ performance is better than compared to hard-coded features-based methods. However, combining the power of these two types of features increases accuracy significantly, which is especially critical in medicine. Herein, a stacked ensemble of gradient boosting and deep learning models were developed to classify breast tumors using DCE-MRI images. The model makes use of radiomics acquired from pixel information in breast DCE-MRI images. Prior to train the model, radiomics had been applied to the factor analysis to refine the feature set and eliminate unuseful features. The performance metrics, as well as the comparisons to some well-known machine learning methods, state the ensemble model outperforms its counterparts. The ensembled model’s accuracy is 94.87% and its AUC value is 0.9728. The recall and precision are 1.0 and 0.9130, respectively, whereas F1-score is 0.9545.

scholarly journals DCE-MRI analysis methods for predicting the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: Pilot study findings

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1592-1602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Li ◽  
Lori R. Arlinghaus ◽  
Gregory D. Ayers ◽  
A. Bapsi Chakravarthy ◽  
Richard G. Abramson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy ◽  
Dce Mri ◽  
Analysis Methods

Breast cancer Ki67 expression prediction by DCE-MRI radiomics features

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (10) ◽  
pp. 909.e1-909.e5 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Ma ◽  
Y. Ji ◽  
L. Qi ◽  
X. Guo ◽  
X. Jian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Ki67 Expression ◽  
Dce Mri

Prediction of breast cancer molecular subtypes using DCE-MRI based on CNNs combined with ensemble learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Sun ◽  
Zi-jun Meng ◽  
Xuewen Hou ◽  
Yang Chen ◽  
Yi-feng Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Ensemble Learning ◽  
Molecular Subtypes ◽  
Dce Mri
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