Classification of cardiac-related artifacts in dynamic contrast breast MRI

Keith C. Stegbauer; Justin P. Smith; Tanya L. Niemeyer; Chris Wood

doi:10.1117/12.535402

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12 May 2004 Classification of cardiac-related artifacts in dynamic contrast breast MRI

Keith C. Stegbauer, Justin P. Smith, Tanya L. Niemeyer, Chris Wood

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Proceedings Volume 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535402
Event: Medical Imaging 2004, 2004, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Dynamic contrast breast MRI is becoming an important adjunct in screening women at high risk for breast cancer, determining extent of disease (staging) and monitoring response to therapy. In dynamic contrast breast MRI, regions of rapid contrast uptake indicate increases in vascularity which can be associated with abnormal tissue, sometimes significant for malignant disease. To show these areas of enhancement, subtractions between the pre and post contrast images and maximum intensity projections (MIPs) are computed. Many projections are obscured by normally enhancing anatomy (heart, aorta, pulmonary vessels). Identification of these structures allows their removal from MIPs, which improves image quality, diagnostic utility and the conspicuity of the enhancing regions. In this study, a fully automated classifier is presented which uses the spatial location of enhancing regions to separate those that occur inside the chest wall from those occurring in the tissue of interest (breast, axilla, chest wall). The classifier was trained on 21 studies each acquired at a different institution (699 clusters of pixels), and tested on 7 studies (231 clusters of pixels) that were not part of the training set. Multiple cost functions for training were examined. The measurements for the peak performance of the classifier were sensitivity 97.0%, specificity 99.4%, PPV 99.9%, NPV 78.8%.

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Keith C. Stegbauer, Justin P. Smith, Tanya L. Niemeyer, and Chris Wood "Classification of cardiac-related artifacts in dynamic contrast breast MRI", Proc. SPIE 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, (12 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535402

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