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ArticleBMC cancer2020

Predicting the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: wavelet transforming radiomics in MRI.

Jiali Zhou, Jinghui Lu, Chen Gao, Jingjing Zeng, Changyu Zhou, Xiaobo Lai, Wenli Cai, Maosheng Xu

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Article in BMC cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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Jiali ZhouDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310006, People's Republic of China.
Jinghui LuDepartment of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 25 New Chardon St., 400C, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Chen GaoDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310006, People's Republic of China.
Jingjing ZengThe Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Changyu ZhouDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310006, People's Republic of China.
Xiaobo LaiDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310006, People's Republic of China.
Wenli CaiDepartment of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 25 New Chardon St., 400C, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. Cai.Wenli@mgh.harvard.edu.
Maosheng XuDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310006, People's Republic of China. xums166@zcmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2396-1600
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CNHarvard University · USThe Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CN

Funding

Chinese medicine research foundation project of Zhejiang Province 2018ZA037National Natural Science Foundation of China 61602419Zhejiang provincial health department platform backbone project 2016147237Zhejiang provincial medicine and health discipline platform project 2018RC058
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe purpose of this study was to investigate the value of wavelet-transformed radiomic MRI in predicting the pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC).

methodsFifty-five female patients with LABC who underwent contrast-enhanced MRI (CE-MRI) examination prior to NAC were collected for the retrospective study. According to the pathological assessment after NAC, patient responses to NAC were categorized into pCR and non-pCR. Three groups of radiomic textures were calculated in the segmented lesions, including (1) volumetric textures, (2) peripheral textures, and (3) wavelet-transformed textures. Six models for the prediction of pCR were Model I: group (1), Model II: group (1) + (2), Model III: group (3), Model IV: group (1) + (3), Model V: group (2) + (3), and Model VI: group (1) + (2) + (3). The performance of predicting models was compared using the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves (AUC).

resultsThe AUCs of the six models for the prediction of pCR were 0.816 ± 0.033 (Model I), 0.823 ± 0.020 (Model II), 0.888 ± 0.025 (Model III), 0.876 ± 0.015 (Model IV), 0.885 ± 0.030 (Model V), and 0.874 ± 0.019 (Model VI). The performance of four models with wavelet-transformed textures (Models III, IV, V, and VI) was significantly better than those without wavelet-transformed textures (Model I and II). In addition, the inclusion of volumetric textures or peripheral textures or both did not result in any improvements in performance.

conclusionsWavelet-transformed textures outperformed volumetric and/or peripheral textures in the radiomic MRI prediction of pCR to NAC for patients with LABC, which can potentially serve as a surrogate biomarker for the prediction of the response of LABC to NAC.

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AdultAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsArea Under CurveBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMachine LearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingMedical InformaticsMiddle AgedNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasm StagingPrognosisBreast cancerNeoadjuvant chemotherapyPathological complete responseRadiomics

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PMID32024483
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