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ArticleCancers2023

Simultaneous 18F-FDG PET/MRI Radiomics and Machine Learning Analysis of the Primary Breast Tumor for the Preoperative Prediction of Axillary Lymph Node Status in Breast Cancer.

Valeria Romeo, Panagiotis Kapetas, Paola Clauser, Sazan Rasul, Renato Cuocolo, Martina Caruso, Thomas H Helbich, Pascal A T Baltzer, Katja Pinker

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Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Valeria RomeoDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via S. Pansini 5, 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1603-6396
Panagiotis KapetasDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Division of General and Pediatric Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Wien, Austria.
Paola ClauserDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Division of General and Pediatric Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Wien, Austria.
Sazan RasulDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Wien, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-2898-3232
Renato CuocoloDepartment of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1452-1574
Martina CarusoDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via S. Pansini 5, 80138 Naples, Italy.
Thomas H HelbichDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Division of General and Pediatric Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Wien, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-3169-778X
Pascal A T BaltzerDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Division of General and Pediatric Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Wien, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-3755-5398
Katja PinkerDepartment of Radiology, Breast Imaging Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 300 E 66th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2722-7331
Medical University of Vienna · ATUniversity of Naples Federico II · ITMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USUniversity of Salerno · IT

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this prospective study, 117 female patients (mean age = 53 years) with 127 histologically proven breast cancer lesions (lymph node (LN) positive = 85, LN negative = 42) underwent simultaneous 18F-FDG PET/MRI of the breast. Quantitative parameters were calculated from dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging (tumor Mean Transit Time, Volume Distribution, Plasma Flow), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) (tumor ADCmean), and PET (tumor SUVmax, mean and minimum, SUVmean of ipsilateral breast parenchyma). Manual whole-lesion segmentation was also performed on DCE, T2-weighted, DWI, and PET images, and radiomic features were extracted. The dataset was divided into a training (70%) and a test set (30%). Multi-step feature selection was performed, and a support vector machine classifier was trained and tested for predicting axillary LN status. 13 radiomic features from DCE, DWI, T2-weighted, and PET images were selected for model building. The classifier obtained an accuracy of 79.8 (AUC = 0.798) in the training set and 78.6% (AUC = 0.839), with sensitivity and specificity of 67.9% and 100%, respectively, in the test set. A machine learning-based radiomics model comprising 18F-FDG PET/MRI radiomic features extracted from the primary breast cancer lesions allows high accuracy in non-invasive identification of axillary LN metastasis.

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breast cancermagnetic resonance imagingpositron emission tomography

Identifiers

PMID37894455
PMCPMC10604950
OpenAlexW4387843810

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