Four-quadrant fast compressive tracking of breast ultrasound videos for computer-aided response evaluation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in mice.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
; 217: 106698, 2022 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a valuable treatment approach for locally advanced breast cancer. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) potentially enables the assessment of therapeutic response to NAC. In order to evaluate the response accurately, quantitatively and objectively, a method that can effectively compensate motions of breast cancer in CEUS videos is urgently needed.METHODS:
We proposed the four-quadrant fast compressive tracking (FQFCT) approach to automatically perform CEUS video tracking and compensation for mice undergoing NAC. The FQFCT divided a tracking window into four smaller windows at four quadrants of a breast lesion and formulated the tracking at each quadrant as a binary classification task. After the FQFCT of breast cancer videos, the quantitative features of CEUS including the mean transit time (MTT) were computed. All mice showed a pathological response to NAC. The features between pre- (day 1) and post-treatment (day 3 and day 5) in these responders were statistically compared.RESULTS:
When we tracked the CEUS videos of mice with the FQFCT, the average tracking error of FQFCT was 0.65 mm, reduced by 46.72% compared with the classic fast compressive tracking method (1.22 mm). After compensation with the FQFCT, the MTT on day 5 of the NAC was significantly different from the MTT before NAC (day 1) (p = 0.013).CONCLUSIONS:
The FQFCT improves the accuracy of CEUS video tracking and contributes to the computer-aided response evaluation of NAC for breast cancer in mice.Palabras clave
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Neoplasias de la Mama
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Terapia Neoadyuvante
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Diagnostic_studies
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Animals
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Female
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Humans
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2022
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