A novel approach correlating pathologic complete response with digital pathology and radiomics in triple-negative breast cancer

© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to The Japanese Breast Cancer Society..

This rapid communication highlights the correlations between digital pathology-whole slide imaging (WSI) and radiomics-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. The research collected 12 patients who had both core needle biopsy and MRI performed to evaluate pathologic complete response (pCR). The results showed that higher collagenous values in pathology data were correlated with more homogeneity, whereas higher tumor expression values in pathology data correlated with less homogeneity in the appearance of tumors on MRI by size zone non-uniformity normalized (SZNN). Higher myxoid values in pathology data are correlated with less similarity of gray-level non-uniformity (GLN) in tumor regions on MRIs, while higher immune values in WSIs correlated with the more joint distribution of smaller-size zones by small area low gray-level emphasis (SALGE) in the tumor regions on MRIs. Pathologic complete response (pCR) was associated with collagen, tumor, and myxoid expression in WSI and GLN and SZNN in radiomic features. The correlations of WSI and radiomic features may further our understanding of the TNBC tumoral microenvironment (TME) and could be used in the future to better tailor the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). This communication will focus on the post-NAC MRI features correlated with pCR and their association with WSI features from core needle biopsies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) - 31(2024), 3 vom: 13. Apr., Seite 529-535

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hacking, Sean M [VerfasserIn]
Windsor, Gabrielle [VerfasserIn]
Cooper, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Jiao, Zhicheng [VerfasserIn]
Lourenco, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yihong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Correlation
Digital pathology
Journal Article
Magnetic resonance imaging
Radiomics
Triple-negative breast cancer
Whole slide imaging

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Date Completed 25.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12282-024-01544-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368414744