Discrimination of Breast Cancer from Healthy Breast Tissue Using a Three-component Diffusion-weighted MRI Model

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PURPOSE: Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) is a contrast-free modality that has demonstrated ability to discriminate between predefined benign and malignant breast lesions. However, how well DW-MRI discriminates cancer from all other breast tissue voxels in a clinical setting is unknown. Here we explore the voxelwise ability to distinguish cancer from healthy breast tissue using signal contributions from the newly developed three-component multi-b-value DW-MRI model.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Patients with pathology-proven breast cancer from two datasets (n = 81 and n = 25) underwent multi-b-value DW-MRI. The three-component signal contributions C 1 and C 2 and their product, C 1 C 2, and signal fractions F 1, F 2, and F 1 F 2 were compared with the image defined on maximum b-value (DWI max), conventional apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), and apparent diffusion kurtosis (K app). The ability to discriminate between cancer and healthy breast tissue was assessed by the false-positive rate given a sensitivity of 80% (FPR80) and ROC AUC.

RESULTS: Mean FPR80 for both datasets was 0.016 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.008-0.024] for C 1 C 2, 0.136 (95% CI, 0.092-0.180) for C 1, 0.068 (95% CI, 0.049-0.087) for C 2, 0.462 (95% CI, 0.425-0.499) for F 1 F 2, 0.832 (95% CI, 0.797-0.868) for F 1, 0.176 (95% CI, 0.150-0.203) for F 2, 0.159 (95% CI, 0.114-0.204) for DWI max, 0.731 (95% CI, 0.692-0.770) for ADC, and 0.684 (95% CI, 0.660-0.709) for K app. Mean ROC AUC for C 1 C 2 was 0.984 (95% CI, 0.977-0.991).

CONCLUSIONS: The C 1 C 2 parameter of the three-component model yields a clinically useful discrimination between cancer and healthy breast tissue, superior to other DW-MRI methods and obliviating predefining lesions. This novel DW-MRI method may serve as noncontrast alternative to standard-of-care dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 27(2021), 4 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 1094-1104

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Andreassen, Maren M Sjaastad [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Soto, Ana E [VerfasserIn]
Conlin, Christopher C [VerfasserIn]
Vidić, Igor [VerfasserIn]
Seibert, Tyler M [VerfasserIn]
Wallace, Anne M [VerfasserIn]
Zare, Somaye [VerfasserIn]
Kuperman, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Abudu, Boya [VerfasserIn]
Ahn, Grace S [VerfasserIn]
Hahn, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Jerome, Neil P [VerfasserIn]
Østlie, Agnes [VerfasserIn]
Bathen, Tone F [VerfasserIn]
Ojeda-Fournier, Haydee [VerfasserIn]
Goa, Pål Erik [VerfasserIn]
Rakow-Penner, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Dale, Anders M [VerfasserIn]

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Comparative Study
Journal Article
Observational Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 20.01.2022

Date Revised 02.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-2017

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317168843