Journal
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 2470-2478Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-015-3635-1
Keywords
Breast; Magnetic resonance imaging; Cancer; Diagnosis; Computer-Assisted; Imaging
Funding
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health [CA092361]
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To quantify kinetic heterogeneity of breast masses that were initially detected with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI, using whole-lesion kinetic distribution data obtained from computer-aided evaluation (CAE), and to compare that with standard kinetic curve analysis. Clinical MR images from 2006 to 2011 with breast masses initially detected with MRI were evaluated with CAE. The relative frequencies of six kinetic patterns (medium-persistent, medium-plateau, medium-washout, rapid-persistent, rapid-plateau, rapid-washout) within the entire lesion were used to calculate kinetic entropy (KE), a quantitative measure of enhancement pattern heterogeneity. Initial uptake (IU) and signal enhancement ratio (SER) were obtained from the most-suspicious kinetic curve. Mann-Whitney U test and ROC analysis were conducted for differentiation of malignant and benign masses. Forty benign and 37 malignant masses comprised the case set. IU and SER were not significantly different between malignant and benign masses, whereas KE was significantly greater for malignant than benign masses (p = 0.748, p = 0.083, and p < 0.0001, respectively). Areas under ROC curve for IU, SER, and KE were 0.479, 0.615, and 0.662, respectively. Quantification of kinetic heterogeneity of whole-lesion time-curve data with KE has the potential to improve differentiation of malignant from benign breast masses on breast MRI. aEuro cent Kinetic heterogeneity can be quantified by computer-aided evaluation of breast MRI aEuro cent Kinetic entropy was greater in malignant masses than benign masses aEuro cent Kinetic entropy has the potential to improve differentiation of breast masses.
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