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Diagnosis of breast cancer using diffuse optical spectroscopy from 500 to 1600 nm: comparison of classification methods

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Nachabe, Rami, Hendriks, Benno H., Lucassen, Gerald W., van der Voort, Marjolein, Evers, Daniel J., Rutgers, Emiel J., Peeters, Marie-Jeanne V., Van der Hage, Jos A. +3 more·2011·Journal of Biomedical Optics

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We report on the use of diffuse optical spectroscopy analysis of breast spectra acquired in the wavelength range from 500 to 1600 nm with a fiber optic probe. A total of 102 ex vivo samples of five different breast tissue types, namely adipose, glandular, fibroadenoma, invasive carcinoma, and ductal carcinoma in situ from 52 patients were measured. A model deriving from the diffusion theory was applied to the measured spectra in order to extract clinically relevant parameters such as blood, water, lipid, and collagen volume fractions, β-carotene concentration, average vessels radius, reduced scattering amplitude, Mie slope, and Mie-to-total scattering fraction. Based on a classification and regression tree algorithm applied to the derived parameters, a sensitivity-specificity of 98%-99%, 84%-95%, 81%-98%, 91%-95%, and 83%-99% were obtained for discrimination of adipose, glandular, fibroadenoma, invasive carcinoma, and ductal carcinoma in situ, respectively; and a multiple classes overall diagnostic performance of 94%. Sensitivity-specificity values obtained for discriminating malignant from nonmalignant tissue were compared to existing reported studies by applying the different classification methods that were used in each of these studies. Furthermore, in these reported studies, either lipid or β-carotene was considered as adipose tissue precursors. We estimate both chromophore concentrations and demonstrate that lipid is a better discriminator for adipose tissue than β-carotene.

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Nachabe, R., Hendriks, B. H., Lucassen, G. W., van der Voort, M., Evers, D. J., Rutgers, E. J., Peeters, M.-J. V., Van der Hage, J. A., Oldenburg, H. S., Ruers, T. J., & Wesseling, J.
Affiliations
  • Philips (Netherlands) (NL)
  • The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NL)
  • Philips Research Nederland B.V.
  • The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Venue
Journal of Biomedical Optics
Published
2011-08-01
Volume
16
Issue
08
Pages
1-13
ISSN
  • 1083-3668 (ISSN-L)
  • 1560-2281
OpenAlex
W2122745779
Cited by
161
References
45
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FWCI
7.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Biomedical Optics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Twente Research Information (publishedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion)
Funders
European Commission (MEST-CT-2004-007832)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Keywords
breast cancer diagnosis, diffuse optical spectroscopy, breast tissue classification, fibroadenoma, ductal carcinoma in situ, invasive breast cancer, adipose tissue, glandular tissue, chromophore concentration, lipid concentration, beta-carotene, classification and regression trees, diffusion theory, Mie scattering, optical fiber probe, ex vivo breast tissue
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Breast Neoplasms, Collagen, Diffusion, Female, Hemoglobins, Humans, Lipids, Oxyhemoglobins, Regression Analysis, Spectrum Analysis, Water, Statistics, Nonparametric, beta Carotene

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