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ABSTRACT: Background
To investigate quantitative ultrasound (QUS) based higher-order texture derivatives in predicting the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC).Materials and methods
100 Patients with LABC were scanned before starting NAC. Five QUS parametric image-types were generated from radio-frequency data over the tumor volume. From each QUS parametric-image, 4 grey level co-occurrence matrix-based texture images were derived (20 QUS-Tex1), which were further processed to create texture derivatives (80 QUS-Tex1-Tex2). Patients were classified into responders and non-responders based on clinical/pathological responses to treatment. Three machine learning algorithms based on linear discriminant (FLD), k-nearest-neighbors (KNN), and support vector machine (SVM) were used for developing radiomic models of response prediction.Results
A KNN-model provided the best results with sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and area under curve (AUC) of 87%, 81%, 82%, and 0.86, respectively. The most helpful features in separating the two response groups were QUS-Tex1-Tex2 features. The 5-year recurrence-free survival (RFS) calculated for KNN predicted responders and non-responders using QUS-Tex1-Tex2 model were comparable to RFS for the actual response groups.Conclusions
We report the first study demonstrating QUS texture-derivative methods in predicting NAC responses in LABC, which leads to better results compared to using texture features alone.
SUBMITTER: Dasgupta A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dasgupta Archya A Brade Stephen S Sannachi Lakshmanan L Quiaoit Karina K Fatima Kashuf K DiCenzo Daniel D Osapoetra Laurentius O LO Saifuddin Murtuza M Trudeau Maureen M Gandhi Sonal S Eisen Andrea A Wright Frances F Look-Hong Nicole N Sadeghi-Naini Ali A Tran William T WT Curpen Belinda B Czarnota Gregory J GJ
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<h4>Background</h4>To investigate quantitative ultrasound (QUS) based higher-order texture derivatives in predicting the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC).<h4>Materials and methods</h4>100 Patients with LABC were scanned before starting NAC. Five QUS parametric image-types were generated from radio-frequency data over the tumor volume. From each QUS parametric-image, 4 grey level co-occurrence matrix-based texture images were derive ...[more]