Dynamic MRI of invasive breast cancer: Assessment of three region-of- interest analysis methods

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 431-438

  Mussurakis, Stavros ^a   Buckley, David L ^a   Horsman, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast, neoplasms; Magnetic resonance imaging, techniques

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

ANALYSIS METHOD; BREAST CANCER; BREAST NEOPLASM; LARGE REGIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, TECHNIQUE; OBSERVER VARIABILITY; REGION-OF-INTEREST; REGION-OF-INTEREST ANALYSIS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SMALL REGION;

PIXELS;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030919014     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199705000-00017     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Harms SE, Flamig DP, Hesley KL, et al. MR imaging of the breast with rotating delivery of excitation off resonance: clinical experience with pathologic correlation. Radiology 1993;187:493-501.
2. Orel SG, Schnall MD, Powell CM, et al. Staging of suspected breast cancer: effect of MR imaging and MR-guided biopsy. Radiology 1995;196:115-22.
3. Weinreb JC, Newstead G. MR imaging of the breast. Radiology 1995;196:593-610.
4. Kaiser WA, Zeitler E. MR imaging of the breast: fast imaging sequences with and without Gd-DTPA. Preliminary observations. Radiology 1989;170:681-6.
5. Gribbestad IS, Nilsen G, Fjosne H, et al. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the breast. Acta Oncol 1992; 31:833-42.
6. Flickinger FW, Allison JD, Sherry RM, Wright JC. Differentiation of benign from malignant breast masses by time-intensity evaluation of contrast enhanced MRI. Magn Res Imag 1993; 11:617-20.
7. Orel SG, Schnall MD, Livolsi VA, Troupin RH. Suspicious breast lesions: MR imaging with radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiology 1994;190:485-93.
8. Gilles R, Guinebretiere JM, Lucidarme O, et al. Nonpalpable breast tumors: diagnosis with contrast-enhanced subtraction dynamic MR imaging. Radiology 1994;191:625-31.
9. Boetes C, Barentsz JO, Mus RD, et al. MR characterization of suspicious breast lesions with a gadolinium-enhanced TurboFLASH subtraction technique. Radiology 1994;193:777-81.
10. Turkat TJ, Klein BD, Polan RL, Richman RH. Dynamic MR mammography: a technique for potentially reducing the biopsy rate for benign breast disease. J Magn Res Imag 1994;4:563-8.
11. Hulka CA, Smith BL, Sgroi DC, et al. Benign and malignant breast lesions: differentiation with echo-planar MR imaging. Radiology 1995;197:33-8.
12. Stomper PC, Herman S, Klippenstein DL, et al. Suspect breast lesions: findings at dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MR imaging correlated with mammographic and pathologic features. Radiology 1995;197:387-95.
13. Knopp MV, Hoffmann U, Brix G, Hawighorst H, Junkermann HJ, van Kaick G. Fast dynamic MR imaging for characterization of tumor: experiences in functional mammography. Radiologe 1995;35:964-72.
14. Mussurakis S, Buckley DL, Coady AM, Turnbull LW, Horsman A. Observer variability in the interpretation of contrast-enhanced MRI of the breast. Br J Radiol 1996;69:1009-16.
15. Kaiser WA. MR mammography (MRM). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
16. Aronen HJ, Gazit IE, Louis DN, et al. Cerebral blood volume maps of gliomas: comparison with tumor grade and histologic findings. Radiology 1994;191:41-51.
17. Gribbestad IS, Nilsen G, Fjosne HE, Kvinnsland S, Haugen OA, Rinck PA. Comparative signal intensity measurements in dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MR mammography. J Magn Res Imag 1994;4:477-80.
18. Mussurakis S, Buckley DL, Bowsley SJ, et al. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the breast combined with pharmacokinetic analysis of gadolinium-DTPA uptake in the diagnosis of local recurrence of early stage breast carcinoma. Invest Radiol 1995;30:650-62.
19. Mussurakis S, Buckley DL, Drew PJ, et al. Dynamic MR imaging of the breast combined with analysis of contrast agent kinetics in the differentiation of primary breast tumours. Clin Radiol (in press).
20. Buckley DL, Kerslake RW, Blackband SJ, Horsman A. Quantitative analysis of multislice Gd-DTPA enhanced dynamic MR images using an automated simplex minimization procedure. Magn Res Med 1994;32:646-51.
21. Stack JP, Redmond OM, Codd MB, Dervan PA, Ennis JT. Breast disease: tissue characterization with Gd-DTPA enhancement profiles. Radiology 1990;174:491-4.
22. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;1:307-10.
23. Kramer MS, Feinstein AR. Clinical biostatistics. LIV. The biostatistics of concordance. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1981; 29:111-23.
24. Hoffmann U, Brix G, Knopp MV, Hess T, Lorenz WJ. Pharmacokinetic mapping of the breast: a new method for dynamic MR mammography. Magn Res Med 1995;33:506-14.
25. Fox PT. Physiological ROI definition by image subtraction. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1991;11:A79-82.