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ArticlePeerJ. Computer science2024

Cardiotoxicity detection tool for breast cancer chemotherapy: a retrospective study.

Ahmad Alenezi, Fergus McKiddie, Mintu Nath, Ali Mayya, Andy Welch

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Ahmad AleneziDepartment of Radiologic Sciences, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Fergus McKiddieNuclear Medicine, Unaffiliated, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom.
Mintu NathInstitute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Ali MayyaDepartment of Computers and Automatic Control Engineering, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria.
Andy WelchMedical and Dental Sciences Department, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6350-0673

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Background: Patients with breast cancer undergoing biological therapy and/or chemotherapy perform multiple radionuclide angiography (RNA) or multigated acquisition (MUGA) scans to assess cardiotoxicity. The association between RNA imaging parameters and left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) remains unclear. Objectives: This study aimed to extract and evaluate the association of several novel imaging biomarkers to detect changes in LVEF in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Methods: We developed and optimized a novel set of MATLAB routines called the "RNA Toolbox" to extract parameters from RNA images. The code was optimized using various statistical tests ( Results: The code was reproducible and showed good agreement with validated clinical software for the parameters extracted from both packages. The regression model and ROC results were statistically significant in predicting LVEF (R Conclusions: Despite the limited sample size, we observed evidence of associations between several parameters and LVEF. We believe that these parameters will be more beneficial than the current methods for patients undergoing cardiotoxic chemotherapy. Moreover, this approach can aid physicians in evaluating subclinical cardiac changes during chemotherapy, and in understanding the potential benefits of cardioprotective drugs.

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PMID39144824
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