Micro-anatomical quantitative optical imaging: toward automated assessment of breast tissues
| dc.citation.journalTitle | Breast Cancer Research | |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 17 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dobbs, Jessica L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mueller, Jenna L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Krishnamurthy, Savitri | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shin, Dongsuk | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kuerer, Henry | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yang, Wei | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ramanujam, Nirmala | |
| dc.contributor.author | Richards-Kortum, Rebecca | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-23T19:33:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-23T19:33:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | NEWS COVERAGE: A news release based on this journal publication is available online: Imaging software could speed breast cancer diagnosis [http://news.rice.edu/2015/08/21/imaging-software-could-speed-breast-cancer-diagnosis/] | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Pathologists currently diagnose breast lesions through histologic assessment, which requires fixation and tissue preparation. The diagnostic criteria used to classify breast lesions are qualitative and subjective, and inter-observer discordance has been shown to be a significant challenge in the diagnosis of selected breast lesions, particularly for borderline proliferative lesions. Thus, there is an opportunity to develop tools to rapidly visualize and quantitatively interpret breast tissue morphology for a variety of clinical applications. Methods: Toward this end, we acquired images of freshly excised breast tissue specimens from a total of 34 patients using confocal fluorescence microscopy and proflavine as a topical stain. We developed computerized algorithms to segment and quantify nuclear and ductal parameters that characterize breast architectural features. A total of 33 parameters were evaluated and used as input to develop a decision tree model to classify benign and malignant breast tissue. Benign features were classified in tissue specimens acquired from 30 patients and malignant features were classified in specimens from 22 patients. Results: The decision tree model that achieved the highest accuracy for distinguishing between benign and malignant breast features used the following parameters: standard deviation of inter-nuclear distance and number of duct lumens. The model achieved 81ﾠ% sensitivity and 93ﾠ% specificity, corresponding to an area under the curve of 0.93 and an overall accuracy of 90ﾠ%. The model classified IDC and DCIS with 92ﾠ% and 96ﾠ% accuracy, respectively. The cross-validated model achieved 75ﾠ% sensitivity and 93ﾠ% specificity and an overall accuracy of 88ﾠ%. Conclusions: These results suggest that proflavine staining and confocal fluorescence microscopy combined with image analysis strategies to segment morphological features could potentially be used to quantitatively diagnose freshly obtained breast tissue at the point of care without the need for tissue preparation. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dobbs, Jessica L., Mueller, Jenna L., Krishnamurthy, Savitri, et al.. "Micro-anatomical quantitative optical imaging: toward automated assessment of breast tissues." <i>Breast Cancer Research,</i> 17, (2015) BioMed Central: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-015-0617-9. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-015-0617-9 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/81708 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
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| dc.title | Micro-anatomical quantitative optical imaging: toward automated assessment of breast tissues | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dc.type.publication | publisher version |