Abstract Sampling water and fat signals symmetrically (i.e., at 0° and 180° relative phase angles) in a dual-echo Dixon technique offers high intrinsic tolerance to phase fluctuations in ...postprocessing and maximum signal-to-noise performance for the separated water and fat images. However, identification of which image is water and which image is fat after their separation is not possible based on the phase information alone. In this work, we proposed a semiempirical automatic image identification method that is based on the intrinsic asymmetry between the water and fat chemical shift spectra. Specifically, the approximately bimodal feature of the fat spectra and the observation that most in vivo tissues are either predominantly water or predominantly fat are used to construct a spectrum-based algorithm. Additional refinement is accomplished by considering the spatial distribution of the tissues that may have a coexistence of water and fat. The final improved algorithm was tested on a total of 131 three-dimensional patient datasets collected from different scanners and found to yield correct water and fat identification in all datasets.
Purpose To determine if tumor necrosis by pretreatment breast MRI and its quantitative imaging characteristics are associated with response to NAST in TNBC. Methods This retrospective study included ...85 TNBC patients (mean age 51.8 ± 13 years) with MRI before NAST and definitive surgery during 2010-2018. Each MRI included T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted (DWI), and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging. For each index carcinoma, total tumor volume including necrosis (TTV), excluding necrosis (TV), and the necrosis-only volume (NV) were segmented on early-phase DCE subtractions and DWI images. NV and %NV were calculated. Percent enhancement on early and late phases of DCE and apparent diffusion coefficient were extracted from TTV, TV, and NV. Association between necrosis with pathological complete response (pCR) was assessed using odds ratio (OR). Multivariable analysis was used to evaluate the prognostic value of necrosis with T stage and nodal status at staging. Mann-Whitney U tests and area under the curve (AUC) were used to assess performance of imaging metrics for discriminating pCR vs non-pCR. Results Of 39 patients (46%) with necrosis, 17 had pCR and 22 did not. Necrosis was not associated with pCR (OR, 0.995; 95% confidence interval CI 0.4-2.3) and was not an independent prognostic factor when combined with T stage and nodal status at staging (P = 0.46). None of the imaging metrics differed significantly between pCR and non-pCR in patients with necrosis (AUC < 0.6 and P > 0.40). Conclusion No significant association was found between necrosis by pretreatment MRI or the quantitative imaging characteristics of tumor necrosis and response to NAST in TNBC.
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Background: To determine changes in MRE HCC stiffness as predictor of immunotherapy response in patients with advanced HCC. Methods: This was a prospective, Institutional Review ...Board approved study of 15 patients with biopsy proven advanced HCC (not amenable to curative therapy), who were to be treated with Pembrolizumab. Eligible patients were > 18 years old with radiographic disease progression/intolerance to sorafenib. All patients had liver MRI with MR Elastography (MRE) and liver biopsy at baseline and at 9 weeks of therapy. HCC stiffness (kilopascals, kPa) was measured on liver MRE elastograms (stiffness maps). Change in HCC stiffness on MRE was compared with overall survival, time to disease progression, and total number of lymphocytes on targeted liver biopsy. Data cutoff date was September 1st 2018. Analysis was performed using descriptive statistics including Spearman correlation ( R), Cox regression, Wilcoxon rank sum test and Fisher’s exact test. Results: Of the initial 15 patients, 4 withdrew from therapy, 1 patient did not undergo MRE scan, and 1 patient had MRE failure. The final 9 patients included 6 men. Median age was 70 years (range, 54-78). Etiology of liver disease was HCV (n = 4) and NASH (n = 5). HCC was moderately differentiated in 8 of 9 patients and well-differentiated in 1 patient. Median overall survival and time to progression were 52 weeks (range, 16-112) and 18 weeks (range, 9-48), respectively. Average non-tumorous liver stiffness was 3.2 kPa (range, 2.1-4.3). No significant change in non-tumor liver stiffness was seen at 9 weeks (p = 0.12). Median baseline tumor stiffness was 4.5 kPa (range, 2.4-7.5). Increase in HCC stiffness at 9 weeks was seen in 5 patients, decrease in 3 patients and no change in 1. Change in HCC stiffness at 9 weeks correlated significantly with overall survival ( R = 0.83), and time to progression ( R = 0.96), (p < 0.05). Nine patients had liver biopsy at baseline and 7 had biopsy at 9 weeks. HCC T lymphocytes on biopsy (n/mm2) significantly correlated with HCC stiffness ( R = 0.79), (p < 0.01). Conclusions: Our pilot data suggests early change in tumor stiffness may help predict better immunotherapy response in patients with advanced HCC.
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Background and Purpose: There is currently lack of recognized imaging criteria for prediction of treatment response to NAST in breast cancer patients. And early identification of treatment ...response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NAST) in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) patients is important for appropriate treatment selection and response monitoring. A novel MRI sequence, Magnetic Resonance Image Compilation (MagIC) is capable of simultaneous quantitation of several tissue water properties including longitudinal (T1), transverse (T2) relaxation times, and proton density (PD). In this study we evaluated the ability of a radiomic model extracted from a novel MagIC sequence acquired early during NAST to predict pathologic complete response to NAST in TNBC. Materials and Methods: This IRB approved prospective ARTEMIS trial (NCT02276443) included 184 women (122 training dataset, 62 testing dataset) diagnosed with stage I-III TNBC. All patients were scanned with MagIC on a 3T MRI scanner at baseline (184 patients), and after 4 cycles (156 Patients) of NAST. T1, T2 and PD maps were generated from the source images using SyMRI (SyntheticMR, Linkoping, Sweden). Histopathology at surgery was used to determine pathologic complete response (pCR) which was defined as absence of the invasive cancer in the breast and axillary lymph nodes. 3D contouring of the tumors was performed using an in-house toolbox. 310 (10 first-order, 300 GLCM) textural features were extracted from each map, with total of 930 features/patient. Radiomic features were compared between pCR and non-pCR using Wilcoxon Rank Sum test and Fisher’s exact test. To build a multivariate, predictive model, logistic regression with elastic net regularization was performed for texture feature selection. The tuning parameter was optimized using 5-fold cross-validation based on the average area under curve (AUC) of each fold of a cross-validation using training data. Then the testing data were used to compare model’s performance by AUC. Results: Univariate analysis found 23 PD, 17 T1 and 10 T2 radiomic features at C4 time point to be able to predict pCR status with AUC >70% in both training and testing cohort. The top performing radiomic features were Entropy, Variance, Homogeneity and Energy (Tables1-2). Multivariate radiomics models from C4-PD, and C4-T1 maps showed best performance during both cross validation and independent testing. The radiomic signature of C4-T1 map that included 27features had best performance, with an AUC of 0.77, 0.70 (95% CI: 0.571-0.868) in training and testing cohort respectively. C4-PD map radiomic signature that included 6features was able to predict the pCR status with AUC of 0.73, 0.72 (95% CI: 0.571-0.868) in training and testing cohort respectively. Conclusion: Our data found that MagIC-based radiomics signature could potentially predict pathologic complete response in TNBC early during NAST. This data shows the potential application of MagIC radiomic model for improvement of response assessment in TNBC.
Table 1.Best performing radiomic features from PD map after 4 cycles of NAST in TNBC patients.FeatureTraining CohortTraining CohortTraining CohortTesting CohortTesting CohortTesting CohortNAUC95% CINAUC95% CIP-valuePD-mapAngular Variance of Sum entropy1060.73820.6437-0.8328500.73240.5895-0.8752<0.001Range of Sum entropy1060.73930.6446-0.834500.72120.5753-0.867<0.001Angular Variance of Sum entropy1060.75960.6662-0.853500.70190.5538-0.8501<0.001Average of Sum entropy1060.73470.6367-0.8327500.70990.5613-0.8585<0.001Angular Variance of Sum variance1060.70160.602-0.8011500.70190.5543-0.8495<0.001Range of Sum variance1060.70050.6001-0.8009500.700.5499-0.8476<0.001
Table 2.Best performing radiomic features from T1-T2 maps after 4 cycles of NAST in TNBC patients.FeatureTraining CohortTraining CohortTraining CohortTesting CohortTesting CohortTesting CohortNAUC95% CINAUC95% CIP-valueT1-mapAngular Variance of Sum entropy1060.76530.6762-0.8544500.70510.5524-0.8579<0.001Range of Sum entropy1060.76530.6759-0.8547500.70350.5503-0.8567<0.001Average of Entropy1060.75250.6568-0.8482500.71630.572-0.8607<0.001Average of Sum entropy1060.750.6552-0.8448500.70190.555-0.8488<0.001Angular Variance of Energy1060.7450.6493-0.8407500.73080.59-0.8715<0.001Range of Energy1060.74290.6466-0.8392500.72920.5885-0.8699<0.001Average of Energy1060.74110.6438-0.8384500.7260.5852-0.8667<0.001Average of Entropy1060.73360.635-0.8322500.74040.602-0.8787<0.001Average of Maximum probability1060.70760.6054-0.8098500.71630.5704-0.8623<0.001Range of Maximum probability1060.70550.6018-0.8092500.75640.6195-0.8933<0.001T2-mapAngular Variance of Energy1060.74820.6531-0.8433500.70990.5644-0.8555<0.001Range of Energy1060.7450.6495-0.8405500.70350.5569-0.8501<0.001Average of Entropy1060.74070.6416-0.8399500.72920.585-0.8733<0.001Average of Sum entropy1060.73860.6405-0.8367500.72440.5797-0.869<0.001Average of Energy1060.73180.6309-0.8327500.72120.5743-0.86<0.001Angular Variance of Sum entropy1060.7290.631-0.827500.72760.5857-0.8695<0.001Range of Sum entropy1060.72760.6295-0.8257500.72280.5796-0.8659<0.001Average of Information measure of correlation 11060.71580.6147-0.8169500.70990.5638-0.8561<0.001Average of Entropy1060.700.5903-0.8028500.74360.6014-0.8858<0.001
Citation Format: Nabil Elshafeey, Ken-Pin Hwang, Beatriz Elena Adrada, Rosalind Pitpitan Candelaria, Medine Boge, Rania M Mahmoud, Huiqin Chen, Jia Sun, Wei Yang, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Benjamin C Musall, Jong Bum Son, Gary J Whitman, Jessica Leung, Huong Le-Petross, Lumarie Santiago, Deanna Lynn Lane, Marion Elizabeth Scoggins, David Allen Spak, Mary Saber Guirguis, Miral Mahesh Patel, Frances Perez, Abeer H Abdelhafez, Jason B White, Lei Huo, Elizabeth Ravenberg, Wei Peng, Alastair Thompson, Senthil Damodaran, Debu Tripathy, Stacey L Moulder, Clinton Yam, Mark David Pagel, Jingfei Ma, Gaiane Margishvili Rauch. Radiomics model based on magnetic resonance image compilation (MagIC) as early predictor of pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy in triple-negative breast cancer abstract. In: Proceedings of the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2021 Dec 7-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PD11-06.
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Background and Purpose:There is currently a lack of recognized imaging criteria for prediction of treatment response to NAST in breast cancer patients with recent reports showing that breast ...MRI is the most accurate modality for evaluation of NAST response. DCE-MRI evaluates tumor perfusion that influences tumor enhancement at the post-contrast subtraction images and allows for more accurate measurement of changes in tumor volume during NAST. In this study, we evaluated the ability of tumor volumetric changes after 2 and 4 cycles of NAST by longitudinal ultrafast DCE-MRI to predict pathologic complete response (pCR) in TNBC undergoing NAST. Materials and Methods: Stage I-III TNBC patients enrolled in an IRB approved prospective clinical trial (ARTEMIS, NCT02276433) who had ultrafast DCE-MRI at baseline (BL, N=103), post 2 cycles (C2, N=59), and post 4 cycles (C4, N=103) of anthracycline-based NAST,and had surgery, were included in this analysis. Tumor volume was calculated using 3D measurements of the index lesion at BL, C2, and C4. Percent change of tumor volume (%TV) between BL, C2, and C4 was calculated at early (9-12 sec) and delayed (360-480 sec) phases of DCE-MRI. The largest lesion was used for analysis in patients with multicentric or multifocal disease. Demographic, clinical, and pathologic data and treatment response at surgery (pCR versus non-pCR) were documented. Receiver operating characteristics curve (ROC) analysis was performed for prediction of pCR status. Positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV) and Youden Index were used to select %TV cut-off thresholds for pCR prediction.Results: 103 patients (median age, 53 years; range, 24-79 years) were included, 48 (47%) had pCR, and 55 (53%) had non-pCR at surgical pathology. The %TV reduction at C2 DCE-MRI was predictive of pCR on both early phase DCE MRI (AUC, 0.873; CI:0.779-0.968, p < .0001) and delayed phase DCE MRI (AUC, 0.844; CI:0.742-0.947, p < .0001). Optimal thresholds were as follows: 70% TV reduction on early phase DCE MRI with Youden’s index of 1.58 was able to predict pCR correctly for 79% of patients with PPV of 81%; 75% TV reduction on delayed phase with Youden’s Index of 1.44 was able to predict pCR correctly for 71% of patients with PPV of 85%.%TV reduction was also predictive of pCR at the C4 time point on both early phase DCE MRI (AUC, 0.761; CI:0.665-0.856, p < .0001) and delayed phase DCE MRI (AUC, 0.737; CI:0.641-0.833, p < .0001). Optimal thresholds were as follows: 90% TV reduction on early phase DCE MRI with Youden’s index of 1.43 was able to correctly predict pCR in 72% of patients with PPV of 70%; and 90% TV reduction on delayed phase with Youden’s Index of 1.34 was able to predict pCR correctly in 68% of patients with PPV of 71%.Conclusion: Our data shows that percent tumor volume reduction by DCE-MRI after 2 and 4 cycles of NAST was able to predict pCR in TNBC with high accuracy and can be used as an early imaging biomarker of NAST response prediction. Volumetric changes by longitudinal DCE-MRI can be used to differentiate chemoresistant and chemosensitive TNBC patients as early as after 2 cycles of NAST, and can help to triage patients for treatment de-escalation or targeted therapy.
Citation Format: Gaiane Margishvili Rauch, Adrada E Beatriz, Rosalind P Candelaria, Nabil Elshafeey, Abeer H Abdelhafez, Benjamin C Musall, Jia Sun, Medina Boge, Rania M.M Mohamed, Jong Bum Son, Shu Zhang, Jessica Leung, Deanna Lane, Marion Scoggins, David Spak, Elsa Arribas, Lumarie Santiago, Gary J Whitman, Huong T. Le-Petross, Tanya W Moseley, Jason B. White, Elizabeth Ravenberg, Ken-Pin Hwang, Peng Wei, Lei Huo, Jennifer K Litton, Vicente Valero, Debu Tripathy, Alastair M Thompson, Mark D Pagel, Jingfei Ma, Wei T Yang, Stacy Moulder. Volumetric changes on longitudinal dynamic contrast enhanced MR imaging (DCE-MRI) as an early treatment response predictor to neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NAST) in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients abstract. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PD6-07.
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Introduction CEST MRI permits quantitation of macromolecules such as amide proteins that are of interest in cancer metabolism. However, optimal CEST acquisition and analysis methods remain ...undetermined. In this study, we investigated CEST MRI as an imaging biomarker for early treatment response in 51 TNBC patients receiving NAST and compared the performance with two different CEST saturation power levels and two analysis methods.
Methods A total of 51 stage I-III TNBC patients enrolled in the prospective ARTEMIS trial (NCT02276443) had CEST imaging performed on a 3T MRI scanner at baseline before NAST (BL, N = 51), after 2 cycles (C2, N = 37), and 4 cycles (C4, N = 44) of NAST. 33 of the 51 patients had imaging at all 3 time points. 29 of the 33 patients had pathological findings, with N = 16 with pathological complete response (pCR) and N = 13 with non-pCR. Two sets of CEST images using 0.9 and 2.0 µT saturation power levels were acquired and analyzed using the magnetization transfer ratio asymmetry (MTRasym) and the Lorentzian line fitting (Mag3.5) methods, for a total of 4 acquisition/analysis combinations. The group averaged CEST signals, MTRasym at 0.9 and 2.0 µT and Mag3.5 at 0.9 and 2.0 µT, at BL, C2 and C4 were determined and evaluated using unpaired (51 patients) and paired (33 patients) Kruskal-Wallis tests. The Mag3.5 at 0.9 µT and the MTRasym at 2.0 µT were further compared between pCR and non-pCR. The group averaged CEST signals at BL, C2, and C4 were evaluated using the Friedman test for the pCR and the non-PCR groups. Separately, the change in the CEST signal from BL to C2 and C4 was determined for each patient and evaluated using the Mann-Whitney test for both groups. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results The MTRasym at BL was higher at 2.0 µT than at 0.9 µT. In contrast, the Mag3.5 at BL was higher at 0.9 µT than at 2.0 µT. The MTRasym at 2.0 µT and the Mag3.5 at 0.9 µT decreased during treatment while the MTRasym at 0.9 µT and the Mag3.5 at 2.0 µT were similar. Both the unpaired and the paired Mag3.5 at 0.9 µT showed a significant decrease at C2 and C4 vs. BL (p < 0.01). The unpaired and paired MTRasym at 2.0 µT showed a decrease, although the change was not significant except for the unpaired data at C4. The decrease in the group averaged Mag3.5 at 0.9 µT was significant at C2 vs. BL for the pCR group (p = 0.04), while it was not significant for the pCR group at C4 vs. BL and for the non-pCR group at either C2 or C4 vs. BL. The group averaged MTRasym at 2.0 µT changes were not significant for either the pCR or the non-pCR groups. None of the CEST signal changes on a per patient basis at C2-BL, C4-BL and C4-C2 were significantly different between the pCR and the non-pCR groups. Further, none of the group averaged CEST signals at BL, C2 and C4 were significantly different between the pCR and the non-pCR groups.
Conclusion Our study demonstrates that the CEST quantitation in TNBC patients undergoing NAST depends on acquisition and analysis. For a maximum change in the CEST effect, Lorentzian line fitting is better paired with acquisition at a low saturation power (0.9 µT) and MTRasym is better paired with acquisition at a high saturation power (2.0 µT). Further, a significant CEST signal decrease was observed in TNBC patients with pCR after NAST when a 0.9 µT saturation power and the Lorentzian line fitting were used. In comparison, the decrease was not significant in non-pCR patients using the same saturation power and analysis method. The results suggest that the CEST signal acquired at 0.9 µT saturation power and analyzed using Lorentzian line fitting may be able to differentiate between pCR and non-pCR among TNBC patients undergoing NAST. Additional studies with a larger patient population are ongoing to further validate our findings and their potential for determining pCR.
Citation Format: Shu Zhang, Gaiane M Rauch, Beatriz E Adrada, Medine Boge, Rania MM Mohamed, Abeer H Abdelhafez, Jong Bum Son, Jia Sun, Nabil A Elshafeey, Jason B White, Deanna L Lane, Jessica WT Leung, Marion E Scoggins, David A Spak, Elsa Arribas, Elizabeth Ravenberg, Lumarie Santiago, Tanya W Moseley, Gary J Whitman, Huong Le-Petross, Benjamin C Musall, Mitsuharu Miyoshi, Xinzeng Wang, Brandy Willis, Stacy Hash, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Peng Wei, Ken-Pin Hwang, Alastair Thompson, Stacy L Moulder, Rosalind P Candelaria, Wei Yang, Jingfei Ma, Mark D Pagel. Assessment of early response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NAST) of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) using chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI: A pilot study abstract. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PS3-08.
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Background and Purpose:Early and accurate assessment ofbreast cancer response to NAST is important for patient management. In this study, we investigated the value of radiomic phenotypes ...derived from semi-quantitative and quantitative DCE-MRI parametric maps for early prediction of NASTresponse in TNBC patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This IRB approved study included 74 patients with stage I-III TNBC who were enrolled in the prospective ARTEMIS trial (NCT02276443). Pathologic complete response (pCR) and non-pCR were assessed by surgical histopathology after NAST (pCR=34; non-pCR=40).MRI scans were obtained at 3 time points during the NAST treatment with every 2-week anthracycline-based chemotherapy (AC): at baseline (BSL=74), post-2 cycles of AC (C2= 27) and post-4 cycles of AC (C4= 27). Patients went on to receive taxane-based chemotherapy prior to surgery. Tumor regions of interest (ROIs) were segmented by a breast radiologist at the early-phase subtractions of DCE-MRI scans using in-house developed software, followed by co-registration of the ROIs with quantitative (Ktrans, Veand Kep), and semi-quantitative DCE parametric maps (Maximum Slope Increase (MSI), Positive Enhancement Integral (PEI) and Peak Signal Enhancement Ratio (SER)).A total of 93 first order radiomic features were extracted from the tumor ROIs of each time point semi-quantitative DCE parametric map, while a total of 390 extracted radiomic features (first order-histogram features and second order grey-level-co-occurrence matrix) were extracted from each quantitative DCE parametric map using an in-house developed Matlab software.Radiomic features at each time point and changes between the 3 time points were compared between pCR and non-pCR using Wilcoxon Rank Sum test and Fisher’s exact test. Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) was used to determine which features predicted pCR.Logistic regression was performed for feature selection, and used to build the radiomic phenotype model. The model performance was assessed by leave-one-out cross validation and 3-fold cross validation. RESULTS:Thirty-three radiomic features from PEI map were significantly different between pCR and non-pCR. The PEI most significant features were changesbetween BSL and C4 in skewness, mean and median (AUC=0.87, 0.85 and 0.87, p=<0.001, 0.001 and 0.002 respectively). Additionally, 31 MSI features were significantly different between pCR and non-pCR. The top 2 features were the interscan-change in skewness between BSL and C2 (AUC=0.80, P=0.007) and C4 standard deviation (AUC=0.80, P=0.006). Four BSL Veradiomic features were statistically significant between pCR and non-pCR with the best being range of difference variance (AUC=0.64, P=0.03). One BSL Kepfeature (Angular-Variance of Information measure of correlation-2) was able to differentiate pCR from non-pCR (AUC=0.64, P=0.04). Five C4-Ktrans features were able to differentiate pCR and non-pCR, with the most significant being mean value (AUC=0.86, P=0.001). BSL-Kepradiomic model built from 24 features (AUC=0.80, p=0.003) and combined (Ktrans, Veand Kep)C2-radiomic model consisting of 20 features (AUC=0.97, p=0.01) showed the best performance for prediction of pCR. CONCLUSIONS:Radiomic phenotypes form DCE-MRI parametric maps were useful for differentiation between pCR and non-pCR and showed promise as noninvasive imaging biomarkers for early prediction of NAST response in TNBC. Potentially, DCE-MRI radiomic features may be used for development of diagnostic predictive model for early noninvasive assessment of NAST treatment response in TNBC patients.
Citation Format: Nabil Elshafeey, Beatriz E Adrada, Rosalind P Candelaria, Abeer H Abdelhafez, Benjamin C Musall, Jia Sun, Medine Boge, Rania M.M Mohamed, Hagar S Mahmoud, Jong Bum Son, Aikaterini Kotrosou, Shu Zhang, Jessica Leung, Deanna Lane, Marion Scoggins, David Spak, Elsa Arribas, Lumarie Santiago, Gary J. Whitman, Huong T Le-Petross, Tanya W Moseley, Jason B White, Elizabeth Ravenberg, Ken-Pin Hwang, Peng Wei, Jennifer K Litton, Lei Huo, Debu Tripathy, Vicente Valero, Alastair M Thompson, Stacy Moulder, Wei T Yang, Mark D Pagel, Jingfei Ma, Gaiane M Rauch. Radiomic phenotypes from dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) parametric maps for early prediction of response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NAST) in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients abstract. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PD6-06.
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Background and Purpose: TNBC is comprised of biologically aggressive tumors with diverse clinical behavior and response to chemotherapy. Prediction of disease response to NACT is critical to ...the development of personalized medicine in TNBC. We evaluated first-order radiomic features from quantitative ADC maps of the tumor and peritumoral region as discriminators of response to NACT in TNBC patients.
Materials and Methods: This IRB-approved prospective study (ARTEMIS trial, NCT02276443) included 34 patients with biopsy proven stage I-III TNBC who underwent evaluation of treatment response by multi-parametric MRI. Patients had a baseline MRI (BL) and a second MRI after 4 cycles (C4) of their treatment. After completion of NACT, all patients underwent surgery and were classified as pathologic complete response (pCR) or non-pCR.
Both MRI exams included T2W series, a dynamic contrast enhanced series (DCE), a conventional diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) series, and a reduced field of view (rFOV) DWI series. Tumor volumes were contoured by an experienced breast radiologist on ADC maps with reference to b1000 DWI images. Regions with necrosis or clip artifacts were excluded from the contour. Peritumoral regions were defined as a 5 mm rim of tissue surrounding the tumor based on DCE series, T2-weighted images with fat suppression and ADC maps. Thirteen first-order radiomic features, including mean, minimum, maximum, percentiles, kurtosis and skewness at a single measurement and the difference between BL and C4 were compared between pCR and non-pCR using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve and Wilcoxon rank sum test.
Results: The kurtosis of tumor at C4 by conventional DWI was significantly higher in non-pCR than in pCR patients (AUC=0.785, p=0.0097). The change in kurtosis from BL to C4 by conventional DWI was also significantly higher in non-pCR than in pCR patients (AUC=0.73, p=0.043). The skewness of tumor at C4 by rFOV DWI scan was significantly lower in pCR than non-pCR patients (AUC=0.73, p=0.023).
The 10th percentile of the peritumoral region’s ADC was significantly different between pCR and non-pCR (mean=1.19, SD is ± 0.27 10-3 mm2/s vs mean=1.34, SD ± 0.27 10-3 mm2/s respectively, AUC=0.70, p=0.048). The kurtosis and 25th percentile of the ADC of peritumoral region were borderline significantly different between pCR and non-pCR (AUC=0.69, p=0.067; AUC=0.69, p= 0.073 respectively).
Conclusion: ADC first-order radiomic features from tumor and peritumoral region in TNBC may be useful for predicting treatment response to NACT. Larger study is necessary and is currently in progress to validate these findings.
Citation Format: Beatriz E. Adrada, Abeer H. Abdelhafez, Benjamin C. Musall, Kenneth R. Hess, Jong Bum Son, Mark D. Pagel, Ken-Pin Hwang, Rosalind P. Candelaria, Lumarie Santiago, Gary J. Whitman, Huong Le-Petross, Tanya W. Moseley, Elsa Arribas, Deanna L. Lane, Marion E. Scoggins, David A. Spak, Jessica W.T. Leung, Senthil Damodaran, Bora Lim, Vicente Valeo, Jason B White, Alastair M. Thompson, Jennifer K. Litton, Stacy L. Moulder, Jingfei Ma, Wei T. Yang, Gaiane M Rauch. Quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) radiomics of tumor and peritumoral regions as potential predictors of treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients abstract. In: Proceedings of the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2019 Dec 10-14; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P6-02-03.
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