Prospective assessment of adjunctive ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography in women undergoing breast biopsy : Impact on BI-RADS assessments

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PURPOSE: To assess the impact of adjunctive ultrasound guided diffuse optical tomography (US-guided DOT) on BI-RADS assessment in women undergoing US-guided breast biopsy.

METHOD: This prospective study enrolled women referred for US-guided breast biopsy between 3/5/2019 and 3/19/2020. Participants underwent US-guided DOT immediately before biopsy. The US-guided DOT acquisition generated average maximum total hemoglobin (HbT) spatial maps and quantitative HbT values. Four radiologists blinded to histopathology assessed conventional imaging (CI) to assign a CI BI-RADS assessment and then integrated DOT information in assigning a CI&DOT BI-RADS assessment. HbT was compared between benign and malignant lesions using an ANOVA test and Tukey's test. Benign biopsies were tabulated, deeming BI-RADS ≥ 4A as positive. Reader agreement was assessed.

RESULTS: Among 61 included women (mean age 48 years), biopsy demonstrated 15 (24.6%) malignant and 46 (75.4%) benign lesions. Mean HbT was 55.3 ± 22.6 µM in benign lesions versus 85.4 ± 15.6 µM in cancers (p < .001). HbT threshold of 78.5 µM achieved sensitivity 80% (12/15) and specificity 89% (41/46) for malignancy. Across readers and patients, 197 pairs of CI BI-RADS and CI&DOT BI-RADS assessments were assigned. Adjunctive US-guided DOT achieved a net decrease in 23.5% (31/132) of suspicious (CI BI-RADS ≥ 4A) assessments of benign lesions (34 correct downgrades and 3 incorrect upgrades). 38.3% (31/81) of 4A assessments were appropriately downgraded. No cancer was downgraded to a non-actionable assessment. Interreader agreement analysis demonstrated kappa = 0.48-0.53 for CI BI-RADS and kappa = 0.28-0.44 for CI&DOT BI-RADS.

CONCLUSIONS: Integration of US-guided DOT information achieved a 23.5% reduction in suspicious BI-RADS assessments for benign lesions. Larger studies are warranted, with attention to improved reader agreement.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:145

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European journal of radiology - 145(2021) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 110029

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Poplack, Steven P [VerfasserIn]
Young, Catherine A [VerfasserIn]
Hagemann, Ian S [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Jingqin [VerfasserIn]
Herman, Cheryl R [VerfasserIn]
Wiele, Kimberly [VerfasserIn]
Li, Shuying [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Yifeng [VerfasserIn]
Covington, Matthew F [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Quing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Breast cancer
Breast ultrasound
Diffuse optical tomography
Journal Article
Optical imaging
Predictive value

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Date Completed 07.12.2021

Date Revised 02.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.110029

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM333392108