A machine learning approach for differentiating malignant from benign enhancing foci on breast MRI

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 1-8 - 2020
Natascha C. D’Amico1,2, Enzo Grossi3, Giovanni Valbusa3, Francesca Rigiroli4, Bernardo Colombo1, Massimo Buscema5, Deborah Fazzini1, Marco Ali1, Ala Malasevschi1, Gianpaolo Cornalba1, Sergio Papa1
1Unit of Diagnostic Imaging and Stereotactic Radiotherapy, Centro Diagnostico Italiano S.p.A., Milan, Italy
2Computer Systems & Bioinformatics Laboratory Department of Engineering, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy
3Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Milan, Italy
4Università degli Studi di Milano, Scuola di specializzazione di Radiodiagnostica, Milan, Italy
5Centro Ricerche Semeion, Rome, Italy

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Differentiate malignant from benign enhancing foci on breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) through radiomic signature. Forty-five enhancing foci in 45 patients were included in this retrospective study, with needle biopsy or imaging follow-up serving as a reference standard. There were 12 malignant and 33 benign lesions. Eight benign lesions confirmed by over 5-year negative follow-up and 15 malignant histopathologically confirmed lesions were added to the dataset to provide reference cases to the machine learning analysis. All MRI examinations were performed with a 1.5-T scanner. One three-dimensional T1-weighted unenhanced sequence was acquired, followed by four dynamic sequences after intravenous injection of 0.1 mmol/kg of gadobenate dimeglumine. Enhancing foci were segmented by an expert breast radiologist, over 200 radiomic features were extracted, and an evolutionary machine learning method (“training with input selection and testing”) was applied. For each classifier, sensitivity, specificity and accuracy were calculated as point estimates and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). A k-nearest neighbour classifier based on 35 selected features was identified as the best performing machine learning approach. Considering both the 45 enhancing foci and the 23 additional cases, this classifier showed a sensitivity of 27/27 (100%, 95% CI 87–100%), a specificity of 37/41 (90%, 95% CI 77–97%), and an accuracy of 64/68 (94%, 95% CI 86–98%). This preliminary study showed the feasibility of a radiomic approach for the characterisation of enhancing foci on breast MRI.

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