Breast imaging

Comparison of BSGI, MRI, mammography, and ultrasound for the diagnosis of breast lesions and their correlations with specific molecular subtypes in Chinese women

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer in females, and is the second leading cancer-related cause of death in this group. Early diagnosis is essential to breast cancer to be effectively treated, and ultras...

Authors: Hongbiao Liu, Hongwei Zhan, Da Sun and Ying Zhang

The role of MRI and clinicopathologic features in predicting the invasive component of biopsy-confirmed ductal carcinoma in situ

The upgrade rate of biopsy-confirmed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to invasive carcinoma is up to 50% on final pathology. We investigated MRI and clinicopathologic predictors of the invasive components of DC...

Authors: Ga Young Yoon, Woo Jung Choi, Joo Hee Cha, Hee Jung Shin, Eun Young Chae and Hak Hee Kim

Breast MRI texture analysis for prediction of BRCA-associated genetic risk

BRCA1/2 deleterious variants account for most of the hereditary breast and ovarian cancer cases. Prediction models and guidelines for the assessment of genetic risk rely heavily on criteria with high variability ...

Authors: Georgia Vasileiou, Maria J. Costa, Christopher Long, Iris R. Wetzler, Juliane Hoyer, Cornelia Kraus, Bernt Popp, Julius Emons, Marius Wunderle, Evelyn Wenkel, Michael Uder, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sebastian M. Jud, Peter A. Fasching, Alexander Cavallaro, André Reis…

Prospective evaluation of contrast-enhanced ultrasound of breast BI-RADS 3–5 lesions

To determine the benefit of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the assessment of breast lesions.

Authors: Eva Janu, Lucie Krikavova, Jirina Little, Karel Dvorak, Dagmar Brancikova, Eva Jandakova, Tomas Pavlik, Petra Kovalcikova, Tomas Kazda and Vlastimil Valek

Discrimination of benign from malignant breast lesions in dense breasts with model-based analysis of regions-of-interest using directional diffusion-weighted images

There is an increasing interest in non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting and evaluating breast lesions. We present a methodology utilizing lesion core and periphery region of int...

Authors: Alan I. Penn, Milica Medved, Vandana Dialani, Etta D. Pisano, Elodia B. Cole, David Brousseau, Gregory S. Karczmar, Guimin Gao, Barry D. Reich and Hiroyuki Abe

Moving a neodymium magnet promotes the migration of a magnetic tracer and increases the monitoring counts on the skin surface of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer

We suspected that moving a small neodymium magnet would promote migration of the magnetic tracer to the sentinel lymph node (SLN). Higher monitoring counts on the skin surface before making an incision help us...

Authors: Masujiro Makita, Eriko Manabe, Tomoko Kurita, Hiroyuki Takei, Seigo Nakamura, Akihiro Kuwahata, Masaki Sekino, Moriaki Kusakabe and Yasuo Ohashi

Diagnostic performance of standard breast MR imaging compared to dedicated axillary MR imaging in the evaluation of axillary lymph node

Breast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging does not usually assess axillary lymph nodes -using dedicated axillary sequence. The additional utility of dedicated axillary sequence is poorly understood. We evaluated ...

Authors: Su Min Ha, Eun Young Chae, Joo Hee Cha, Hee Jung Shin, Woo Jung Choi and Hak Hee Kim

Magnetic resonance imaging findings of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: can it be an indirect sign of treatment success or fail?

Authors: Ayşegül Altunkeser, Fatma Zeynep Arslan and Mehmet Ali Eryılmaz

Evaluating the performance of convolutional neural networks with direct acyclic graph architectures in automatic segmentation of breast lesion in US images

Outlining lesion contours in Ultra Sound (US) breast images is an important step in breast cancer diagnosis. Malignant lesions infiltrate the surrounding tissue, generating irregular contours, with spiculation...

Authors: Marly Guimarães Fernandes Costa, João Paulo Mendes Campos, Gustavo de Aquino e Aquino, Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira and Cícero Ferreira Fernandes Costa Filho

An experimental study on breast lesion detection and classification from ultrasound images using deep learning architectures

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in the medical field has received more and more attention in recent years. One important CAD application is to detect and classify breast lesions in ultrasound images. Traditiona...

Authors: Zhantao Cao, Lixin Duan, Guowu Yang, Ting Yue and Qin Chen

Screening mammography for second breast cancers in women with history of early-stage breast cancer: factors and causes associated with non-detection

The aim of our study was to identify the factors and causes associated with non-detection for second breast cancers on screening mammography in women with a personal history of early-stage breast cancer.

Authors: Yoo Kyung Yeom, Eun Young Chae, Hak Hee Kim, Joo Hee Cha, Hee Jung Shin and Woo Jung Choi

Radial scars/complex sclerosing lesions of the breast: radiologic and clinicopathologic correlation

We investigated the radiologic and clinical findings of radial scar and complex sclerosing lesions, and evaluated the rate of pathologic upgrade and predicting factors.

Authors: Su Min Ha, Joo Hee Cha, Hee Jung Shin, Eun Young Chae, Woo Jung Choi, Hak Hee Kim and Ha-Yeon Oh

Malignancy rates of B3-lesions in breast magnetic resonance imaging – do all lesions have to be excised?

Approximately 10% of all MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsies (MR-VAB) are histologically classified as B3 lesions. In most of these cases surgical excision is recommended. The aim of our study was to ev...

Authors: H. Preibsch, L. K. Wanner, A. Staebler, M. Hahn and K. C. Siegmann-Luz

Mammographic density changes in surgical weight loss-an indication for personalized screening

Obesity and high radiologic breast density independently increase breast cancer risk. We evaluated the effect of surgical weight loss on mammographic density (MD).

Authors: Natalia Partain, Ali Mokdad, Nancy Puzziferri, Jessica Porembka, Stephen Seiler, Alana Christie, Deborah Farr, Aeisha Rivers, A. Marilyn Leitch, Rachel Wooldridge, James Huth and Roshni Rao

MRI texture analysis in differentiating luminal A and luminal B breast cancer molecular subtypes - a feasibility study

The aim of this study was to use texture analysis (TA) of breast magnetic resonance (MR) images to assist in differentiating estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer molecular subtypes.

Authors: Kirsi Holli-Helenius, Annukka Salminen, Irina Rinta-Kiikka, Ilkka Koskivuo, Nina Brück, Pia Boström and Riitta Parkkola

Usefulness of grayscale inverted images in addition to standard images in digital mammography

Mammography is essential for early diagnosis of breast cancer, which is the most common type of cancer in females that is associated with a high mortality rate. We investigated whether evaluation of the graysc...

Authors: Ayşegül Altunkeser and M. Kazım Körez

Mapping breast tissue types by miniature radio-frequency near-field spectroscopy sensor in ex-vivo freshly excised specimens

Receiving real-time information on tissue properties while performing biopsy procedures has the potential of improving biopsy accuracy. The study goal was to test the ability of a miniature flexible Radio-Freq...

Authors: Zvi Kaufman, Haim Paran, Ilana Haas, Patricia Malinger, Tania Zehavi, Tamar Karni, Izhak Pappo, Judith Sandbank, Judith Diment and Tanir Allweis

Evaluation of dynamic infrared thermography as an alternative to CT angiography for perforator mapping in breast reconstruction: a clinical study

The current gold standard for preoperative perforator mapping in breast reconstruction with a DIEP flap is CT angiography (CTA). Dynamic infrared thermography (DIRT) is an imaging method that does not require ...

Authors: Sven Weum, James B. Mercer and Louis de Weerd

Preoperative axillary lymph node staging by ultrasound-guided cytology using a four-level sonographic score

The staging of axillary lymph nodes is critical to the management and prognosis of breast cancer, the most frequent cancer in females. Neoadjuvant therapy and lymph node dissection are recommended when maligna...

Authors: Caroline De Coninck, Jean-Christophe Noël, Rachel Boutemy and Philippe Simon