Toward real-time quantification of fluorescence molecular probes using target/background ratio for guiding biopsy and endoscopic therapy of esophageal neoplasia

Yang Jiang; Yuanzheng Gong; Joel H. Rubenstein; Thomas D. Wang M.D.; Eric J. Seibel

doi:10.1117/1.JMI.4.2.024502

24 May 2017 Toward real-time quantification of fluorescence molecular probes using target/background ratio for guiding biopsy and endoscopic therapy of esophageal neoplasia

Yang Jiang, Yuanzheng Gong, Joel H. Rubenstein, Thomas D. Wang M.D., Eric J. Seibel

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Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 024502 (May 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.4.2.024502

Abstract

Multimodal endoscopy using fluorescence molecular probes is a promising method of surveying the entire esophagus to detect cancer progression. Using the fluorescence ratio of a target compared to a surrounding background, a quantitative value is diagnostic for progression from Barrett’s esophagus to high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). However, current quantification of fluorescent images is done only after the endoscopic procedure. We developed a Chan–Vese-based algorithm to segment fluorescence targets, and subsequent morphological operations to generate background, thus calculating target/background (T/B) ratios, potentially to provide real-time guidance for biopsy and endoscopic therapy. With an initial processing speed of 2 fps and by calculating the T/B ratio for each frame, our method provides quasireal-time quantification of the molecular probe labeling to the endoscopist. Furthermore, an automatic computer-aided diagnosis algorithm can be applied to the recorded endoscopic video, and the overall T/B ratio is calculated for each patient. The receiver operating characteristic curve was employed to determine the threshold for classification of HGD/EAC using leave-one-out cross-validation. With 92% sensitivity and 75% specificity to classify HGD/EAC, our automatic algorithm shows promising results for a surveillance procedure to help manage esophageal cancer and other cancers inspected by endoscopy.

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Yang Jiang, Yuanzheng Gong, Joel H. Rubenstein, Thomas D. Wang M.D., and Eric J. Seibel "Toward real-time quantification of fluorescence molecular probes using target/background ratio for guiding biopsy and endoscopic therapy of esophageal neoplasia," Journal of Medical Imaging 4(2), 024502 (24 May 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.4.2.024502

Received: 17 February 2017; Accepted: 24 April 2017; Published: 24 May 2017

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