Fully automated quantitative analysis of breast cancer risk in DCE-MR images

Luan Jiang; Xiaoxin Hu; Yajia Gu; Qiang Li

doi:10.1117/12.2081876

20 March 2015 Fully automated quantitative analysis of breast cancer risk in DCE-MR images

Luan Jiang, Xiaoxin Hu, Yajia Gu, Qiang Li

Proceedings Volume 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 94141Y (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081876
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Amount of fibroglandular tissue (FGT) and background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) in dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance (DCE-MR) images are two important indices for breast cancer risk assessment in the clinical practice. The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a fully automated scheme for quantitative analysis of FGT and BPE in DCE-MR images. Our fully automated method consists of three steps, i.e., segmentation of whole breast, fibroglandular tissues, and enhanced fibroglandular tissues. Based on the volume of interest extracted automatically, dynamic programming method was applied in each 2-D slice of a 3-D MR scan to delineate the chest wall and breast skin line for segmenting the whole breast. This step took advantages of the continuity of chest wall and breast skin line across adjacent slices. We then further used fuzzy c-means clustering method with automatic selection of cluster number for segmenting the fibroglandular tissues within the segmented whole breast area. Finally, a statistical method was used to set a threshold based on the estimated noise level for segmenting the enhanced fibroglandular tissues in the subtraction images of pre- and post-contrast MR scans. Based on the segmented whole breast, fibroglandular tissues, and enhanced fibroglandular tissues, FGT and BPE were automatically computed. Preliminary results of technical evaluation and clinical validation showed that our fully automated scheme could obtain good segmentation of the whole breast, fibroglandular tissues, and enhanced fibroglandular tissues to achieve accurate assessment of FGT and BPE for quantitative analysis of breast cancer risk.

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Luan Jiang, Xiaoxin Hu, Yajia Gu, and Qiang Li "Fully automated quantitative analysis of breast cancer risk in DCE-MR images", Proc. SPIE 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 94141Y (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081876

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KEYWORDS

Image segmentation

Tissues

Breast

Breast cancer

Magnetic resonance imaging

Resonance enhancement

Quantitative analysis

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