Effect of anatomy on spectroscopic detection of cervical dysplasia

Jelena Mirkovic; Condon Lau; Sasha McGee; Chung-Chieh Yu; Jonathan Nazemi; Luis H. Galindo; Victoria Feng; Teresa Darragh; Antonio de las Morenas; Christopher P. Crum; Elizabeth Stier; Michael S. Feld; Kamran Badizadegan

doi:10.1117/1.3194142

1 July 2009 Effect of anatomy on spectroscopic detection of cervical dysplasia

Jelena Mirkovic, Condon Lau, Sasha McGee, Chung-Chieh Yu, Jonathan Nazemi, Luis H. Galindo, Victoria Feng, Teresa Darragh, Antonio de las Morenas, Christopher P. Crum, Elizabeth Stier, Michael S. Feld, Kamran Badizadegan

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 14, Issue 4, 044021 (July 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3194142

Abstract

It has long been speculated that underlying variations in tissue anatomy affect in vivo spectroscopic measurements. We investigate the effects of cervical anatomy on reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy to guide the development of a diagnostic algorithm for identifying high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) free of the confounding effects of anatomy. We use spectroscopy in both contact probe and imaging modes to study patients undergoing either colposcopy or treatment for HSIL. Physical models of light propagation in tissue are used to extract parameters related to tissue morphology and biochemistry. Our results show that the transformation zone, the area in which the vast majority of HSILs are found, is spectroscopically distinct from the adjacent squamous mucosa, and that these anatomical differences can directly influence spectroscopic diagnostic parameters. Specifically, we demonstrate that performance of diagnostic algorithms for identifying HSILs is artificially enhanced when clinically normal squamous sites are included in the statistical analysis of the spectroscopic data. We conclude that underlying differences in tissue anatomy can have a confounding effect on diagnostic spectroscopic parameters and that the common practice of including clinically normal squamous sites in cervical spectroscopy results in artificially improved performance in distinguishing HSILs from clinically suspicious non-HSILs.

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Jelena Mirkovic, Condon Lau, Sasha McGee, Chung-Chieh Yu, Jonathan Nazemi, Luis H. Galindo, Victoria Feng, Teresa Darragh, Antonio de las Morenas, Christopher P. Crum, Elizabeth Stier, Michael S. Feld, and Kamran Badizadegan "Effect of anatomy on spectroscopic detection of cervical dysplasia," Journal of Biomedical Optics 14(4), 044021 (1 July 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3194142

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