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A multicentric study of radiomics and artificial intelligence analysis on contrast-enhanced mammography to identify different histotypes of breast cancer
Objective To evaluate the performance of radiomic analysis on contrast-enhanced mammography images to identify different histotypes of breast cancer mainly in order to predict grading, to identify hormone receptors, to discriminate human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and to identify lumi...
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Published in: | Radiologia medica 2024-06, Vol.129 (6), p.864-878 |
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To evaluate the performance of radiomic analysis on contrast-enhanced mammography images to identify different histotypes of breast cancer mainly in order to predict grading, to identify hormone receptors, to discriminate human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and to identify luminal histotype of the breast cancer.
Methods
From four Italian centers were recruited 180 malignant lesions and 68 benign lesions. However, only the malignant lesions were considered for the analysis. All patients underwent contrast-enhanced mammography in cranium caudal (CC) and medium lateral oblique (MLO) view. Considering histological findings as the ground truth, four outcomes were considered: (1) G1 + G2 vs. G3; (2) HER2 + vs. HER2 − ; (3) HR + vs. HR − ; and (4) non-luminal vs. luminal A or HR + /HER2− and luminal B or HR + /HER2 + . For multivariate analysis feature selection, balancing techniques and patter recognition approaches were considered.
Results
The univariate findings showed that the diagnostic performance is low for each outcome, while the results of the multivariate analysis showed that better performances can be obtained. In the HER2 + detection, the best performance (73% of accuracy and AUC = 0.77) was obtained using a linear regression model (LRM) with 12 features extracted by MLO view. In the HR + detection, the best performance (77% of accuracy and AUC = 0.80) was obtained using a LRM with 14 features extracted by MLO view. In grading classification, the best performance was obtained by a decision tree trained with three predictors extracted by MLO view reaching an accuracy of 82% on validation set. In the luminal versus non-luminal histotype classification, the best performance was obtained by a bagged tree trained with 15 predictors extracted by CC view reaching an accuracy of 94% on validation set.
Conclusions
The results suggest that radiomics analysis can be effectively applied to design a tool to support physician decision making in breast cancer classification. In particular, the classification of luminal versus non-luminal histotypes can be performed with high accuracy. |
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ISSN: | 1826-6983 0033-8362 1826-6983 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11547-024-01817-8 |