Model-based analysis of reflectance and fluorescence spectra for in vivo detection of cervical dysplasia and cancer

Crystal Elaine Redden Weber; Richard A. Schwarz; Edward Neely Atkinson; Dennis D. Cox; Calum E. MacAulay; Michele Follen; Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

doi:10.1117/1.3013307

1 November 2008 Model-based analysis of reflectance and fluorescence spectra for in vivo detection of cervical dysplasia and cancer

Crystal Elaine Redden Weber, Richard A. Schwarz, Edward Neely Atkinson, Dennis D. Cox, Calum E. MacAulay, Michele Follen, Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 13, Issue 6, 064016 (November 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3013307

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Development, validation, and implementation of an analytical model to extract biologically and diagnostically relevant parameters from measured cervical tissue reflectance and fluorescence spectra are presented. Monte Carlo simulations of tissue reflectance are used to determine the relative contribution of the signal from the epithelium and stroma. The results indicate that the clinical probe used collects a majority of its reflectance signal from the stroma; therefore, a one-layer analytical model of reflectance is used. Two analytical approaches to calculate reflectance spectra are compared to Monte Carlo simulations, and a diffusion theory-based model is implemented. The model is validated by fitting spectra generated from Monte Carlo simulations and comparing the input and output parameters. Median agreement between extracted optical properties and input parameters is 10.6%. The reflectance model is used together with an analytical model of tissue fluorescence to extract optical properties and fluorophore concentrations from 748 clinical measurements of cervical tissue. A diagnostic algorithm based on these extracted parameters is developed and evaluated using cross-validation. The sensitivity/specificity of this algorithm relative to the gold standard of histopathology per measurement are 85/51%; this is comparable to accuracy reported in other studies of optical technologies for detection of cervical cancer and its precursors.

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Crystal Elaine Redden Weber, Richard A. Schwarz, Edward Neely Atkinson, Dennis D. Cox, Calum E. MacAulay, Michele Follen, and Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum "Model-based analysis of reflectance and fluorescence spectra for in vivo detection of cervical dysplasia and cancer," Journal of Biomedical Optics 13(6), 064016 (1 November 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3013307

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