Project description:Accurate diagnostic discrimination of benign renal oncocytoma (OC) and malignant renal cell carcinomas (RCC) is not only useful for planning appropriate treatment strategies of patients with renal masses but also for estimating prognosis. Classification of renal neoplasms solely by histopathology can often be challenging for a variety of reasons. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a genomic algorithm for molecular classification of renal cortical neoplasms that could be implemented in a routine clinical diagnostic setting. Using TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) copy number profiles of over 600 RCC specimens, prior FISH studies and published literature, a classification algorithm was developed consisting of 15 genomic markers: loss of VHL, 3p21, 8p, and chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10 and 17, and gain of 5qter, 16p, 17q, 20q, and chromosomes 3, 7, and 12. Criteria for scoring specimens for the presence of each genomic marker were established. As validation, 191 surgically resected formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded renal neoplasms were blindly submitted to targeted array-CGH and were classified according to the algorithm. Upon histologic re-review leading to exclusion of three specimens and using histology as the gold standard, the algorithm correctly classified 58 of 62 (93%) clear cell renal cell carcinoma, 51 of 56 (91%) papillary RCC, and 33 of 34 (97%) chromophobe RCC. Of the 36 OC specimens, 17 were classified as OC, two as a malignant subtype, 14 as benign, and three exhibited alterations not associated with a specific subtype. In ten of the latter two groups, CCND1-rearrangement was detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization, affording a classification as OC. Together, 33 of 36 (92%) OC were classified as OC or benign. For the entire validation cohort, an overall diagnostic sensitivity of 93% and above 97% specificity was achieved, suggesting that the implementation of genome-based molecular classification in a clinical diagnostic setting could impact the overall management and outcome of patients with renal tumors.

Project description:Accurate diagnostic discrimination of benign renal oncocytoma (OC) and malignant renal cell carcinomas (RCC) is not only useful for planning appropriate treatment strategies of patients with renal masses but also for estimating prognosis. Classification of renal neoplasms solely by histopathology can often be challenging for a variety of reasons. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a genomic algorithm for molecular classification of renal cortical neoplasms that could be implemented in a routine clinical diagnostic setting. Using TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) copy number profiles of over 600 RCC specimens, prior FISH studies and published literature, a classification algorithm was developed consisting of 15 genomic markers: loss of VHL, 3p21, 8p, and chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10 and 17, and gain of 5qter, 16p, 17q, 20q, and chromosomes 3, 7, and 12. Criteria for scoring specimens for the presence of each genomic marker were established. As validation, 191 surgically resected formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded renal neoplasms were blindly submitted to targeted array-CGH and were classified according to the algorithm. Upon histologic re-review leading to exclusion of three specimens and using histology as the gold standard, the algorithm correctly classified 58 of 62 (93%) clear cell renal cell carcinoma, 51 of 56 (91%) papillary RCC, and 33 of 34 (97%) chromophobe RCC. Of the 36 OC specimens, 17 were classified as OC, two as a malignant subtype, 14 as benign, and three exhibited alterations not associated with a specific subtype. In ten of the latter two groups, CCND1-rearrangement was detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization, affording a classification as OC. Together, 33 of 36 (92%) OC were classified as OC or benign. For the entire validation cohort, an overall diagnostic sensitivity of 93% and above 97% specificity was achieved, suggesting that the implementation of genome-based molecular classification in a clinical diagnostic setting could impact the overall management and outcome of patients with renal tumors. A total of 191 RCC FFPE samples are analyzed including 63 clear cell RCC (ccRCC), 57 papillary RCC (pRCC), 35 chromophobe RCC (chrRCC) and 36 oncocytoma (OC). Two-color array-comparative genomic hybdrization on custom designed using RCC DNA as test and normal sex-matched DNA as reference.

Project description:BackgroundVoice disorders mainly result from chronic overuse or abuse, particularly in occupational voice users such as teachers. Previous studies proposed a contact microphone attached to the anterior neck for ambulatory voice monitoring; however, the inconvenience associated with taping and wiring, along with the lack of real-time processing, has limited its clinical application.ObjectiveThis study aims to (1) propose an automatic speech detection system using wireless microphones for real-time ambulatory voice monitoring, (2) examine the detection accuracy under controlled environment and noisy conditions, and (3) report the results of the phonation ratio in practical scenarios.MethodsWe designed an adaptive threshold function to detect the presence of speech based on the energy envelope. We invited 10 teachers to participate in this study and tested the performance of the proposed automatic speech detection system regarding detection accuracy and phonation ratio. Moreover, we investigated whether the unsupervised noise reduction algorithm (ie, log minimum mean square error) can overcome the influence of environmental noise in the proposed system.ResultsThe proposed system exhibited an average accuracy of speech detection of 89.9%, ranging from 81.0% (67,357/83,157 frames) to 95.0% (199,201/209,685 frames). Subsequent analyses revealed a phonation ratio between 44.0% (33,019/75,044 frames) and 78.0% (68,785/88,186 frames) during teaching sessions of 40-60 minutes; the durations of most of the phonation segments were less than 10 seconds. The presence of background noise reduced the accuracy of the automatic speech detection system, and an adjuvant noise reduction function could effectively improve the accuracy, especially under stable noise conditions.ConclusionsThis study demonstrated an average detection accuracy of 89.9% in the proposed automatic speech detection system with wireless microphones. The preliminary results for the phonation ratio were comparable to those of previous studies. Although the wireless microphones are susceptible to background noise, an additional noise reduction function can alleviate this limitation. These results indicate that the proposed system can be applied for ambulatory voice monitoring in occupational voice users.

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