Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2019.108782
Keywords
Granulomatous mastitis; Breast cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; Differential diagnosis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61731008]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [19ZR1457800]
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether whole-lesion histogram and texture analysis using apparent diffusion coefficient can discriminate between idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) and invasive breast carcinoma (IBC), both of which appeared as non-mass enhancement lesions without rim-enhanced masses. Method: This retrospective study included 58 pathology-proven female patients at two independent study sites (27 IGM patients and 31 IBC patients). Diffusion-weighted imaging (3b values, 50, 400 or 500, and 800 s/mm(2)) was performed using 1.5 T or 3 T MR scanners from the same vendor. Whole-lesions were segmented and 11 features were extracted. Univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify significant variables for differentiating IGM from IBC. Receiver operating characteristic curve was assessed. The interobserver reliability between two observers for the histogram and texture measurement was also reported. Results: The 5th percentile, difference entropy and entropy of apparent diffusion coefficient showed significant differences between the two groups. An area under the curve of 0.778 (95 % CI: 0.648, 0.908), accuracy of 79.3 %, and sensitivity of 87.1 % was achieved using these three significant features. No significant feature was found with the multivariate analysis. For the interobserver reliability, all apparent diffusion coefficient parameters except skewness and kurtosis indicated good or excellent agreement, while these two features showed moderate agreement. Conclusions: Whole-lesion histogram and texture analysis using apparent diffusion coefficient provide a non-invasive analytical approach to the differentiation between IGM and IBC, both presenting with non-mass enhancement without rim-enhanced masses.
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