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A novel approach correlating pathologic complete response with digital pathology and radiomics in triple-negative breast cancer.

Authors :
Hacking SM
Windsor G
Cooper R
Jiao Z
Lourenco A
Wang Y
Source :
Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) [Breast Cancer] 2024 May; Vol. 31 (3), pp. 529-535. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 13.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

This rapid communication highlights the correlations between digital pathology-whole slide imaging (WSI) and radiomics-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. The research collected 12 patients who had both core needle biopsy and MRI performed to evaluate pathologic complete response (pCR). The results showed that higher collagenous values in pathology data were correlated with more homogeneity, whereas higher tumor expression values in pathology data correlated with less homogeneity in the appearance of tumors on MRI by size zone non-uniformity normalized (SZNN). Higher myxoid values in pathology data are correlated with less similarity of gray-level non-uniformity (GLN) in tumor regions on MRIs, while higher immune values in WSIs correlated with the more joint distribution of smaller-size zones by small area low gray-level emphasis (SALGE) in the tumor regions on MRIs. Pathologic complete response (pCR) was associated with collagen, tumor, and myxoid expression in WSI and GLN and SZNN in radiomic features. The correlations of WSI and radiomic features may further our understanding of the TNBC tumoral microenvironment (TME) and could be used in the future to better tailor the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). This communication will focus on the post-NAC MRI features correlated with pCR and their association with WSI features from core needle biopsies.<br /> (© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to The Japanese Breast Cancer Society.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1880-4233
Volume :
31
Issue :
3
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
38351366
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-024-01544-y