Advances in finite element simulations of elastosonography for breast lesion detection

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Celi, Simona ^a   Di Puccio, Francesca ^b   Forte, Paola ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

breast cancer; elastosonography; FEM; probabilistic FE analyses; strain assessment

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FRICTION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC MODELS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION DETECTION; ELASTOSONOGRAPHY; FE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; LINEAR ELASTIC MATERIAL; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CYST; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAM; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELASTOSONOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FAT NECROSIS; FIBROADENOMA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STIMULUS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROBABILITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 80052872089     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004491     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Thitaikumar, A., Mobbs, L., Kraemer-Chant, C., Garra, B., and Ophir, J., 2008, "Breast Tumor Classification Using Axial Shear Strain Elastography: a Feasibility Study," Phys. Med. Biol., 53, pp. 4809-4823.
2. Di Maggio, C., 2004, "State of the Art of Current Modalities for the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions," Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging, 31(1), pp. S56-S69. (Pubitemid 38833034)
3. Gordon, P., and Goldenberg, S., 1995, "Malignant Breast Masses Detected Only by Ultrasound: A Retrospective Review," Cancer, 76(4), pp. 626-630.
4. Ophir, J., Céspedes, I., Ponnekanti, H., Yazdi, Y., and Li, X., 1991, "Elastography: A Quantitative Method for Imaging the Elasticity of Biological Tissues," Ultrason. Imaging, 13(2), pp. 111-134.
5. Ophir, J., Alam, S. K., Garra, B., Kallel, F., Konofagou, E., Krouskop, T., and Varghese, T., 1999, "Elastography: Ultrasonic Estimation and Imaging of Elastic Properties of Tissues," Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., Part H: J. Eng. Med., 213, pp. 203-233.
6. Patil, A. V., Garson, C. D., and Hossack, J. A., 2007, "3D Prostate Elastography: Algorithm, Simulations and Experiments," Phys. Med. Biol., 52, pp. 3643-3663. (Pubitemid 46830646)
7. McCormack, D., Al-Shaer, M., Goldschmidt, B., Dale, P., Henry, C., apageorgio, C., Bhattacharyya, K., and Viator, J., 2009, "Photoacoustic Detection of Melanoma Micrometastasis in Sentinel Lymph Nodes," ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 131(7), p. 074519.
8. Greenleaf, J. F., Fatemi, M., and Insana, M., 2003, "Selected Methods for Imaging Elastic Properties of Biological Tissues," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 5, pp. 57-78. (Pubitemid 40125308)
9. Thitaikumar, A., and Ophir, J., 2007, "Effect of Lesion Boundary Conditions on Axial Strain Elastograms: A Parametric Study," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 33(9), pp. 1463-1467. (Pubitemid 47302199)
10. Thitaikumar, A., Krouskop, T., Garra, B., and Ophir, J., 2007, "Visualization of Bonding at an Inclusion Boundary Using Axial Shear Strain Elastography: A Feasibility Study," Phys. Med. Biol., 52, pp. 2615-2633. (Pubitemid 46778530)
11. Krouskop, T. A., Younes, P. S., Srinivasan, S., Wheeler, T., and Ophir, J., 2003, "Differences in the Compressive Stress-Strain Response of Infiltrating Ductal Carcinomas With and Without Lobular Features-Implications for Mammography and Elastography," Ultrason. Imaging, 25(3), pp. 162- 170.
12. Bilgen, M., and Insana, M., 1998, "Elastostatics of a Spherical Inclusion in Homogeneous Biological Media," Phys. Med. Biol., 43, pp. 1-20. (Pubitemid 28103707)
13. Hall, T. J., Zhu, Y., and Spalding, C., 2003, "In Vivo Real-Time Freehand Palpation Imaging," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 29, pp. 427-435. (Pubitemid 36434331)
14. Bercoff, J., Chaffai, S., Tanter, M., Sandrin, L., Catheline, S., Fink, M., Gennisson, J., and Meunier, M., 2003, "In Vivo Breast Tumor Detection Using Transient Elastography," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 29, pp. 1387-1396. (Pubitemid 37338748)
15. Chandra, M., Sehgal, S., Weinstein, P., Arger, E., and Conant, J., 2006, "A Review of Breast Ultrasound," J. Mammary Gland Biol. Neoplasia., 11(2), pp. 113-123.
16. O'Donnell, M., Skovoroda, A., and Shapo, B., 1991, "Measurement of Arterial Wall Motion Using Fourier Based Speckle Tracking Algorithms," Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1101-1104.
17. Bertrand, M. M., Meunier, M., Doucet, M., and Ferland, G., 1989, "Ultrasonic Biomechanical Strain Gauge based on Speckle Tracking," IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 859-864.
18. Varghese, T., Konofagou, E., Ophir, J., Alam, S., and Bilgen, M., 2000, "Direct Strain Estimation in Elastography Using Spectral Cross-Correlation," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 26, pp. 1525-1537. (Pubitemid 32118221)
19. Bilgen, M., and Insana, M., 1996, "Deformation Models and Correlation Analysis in Elastography," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99, pp. 3212-24. (Pubitemid 26137301)
20. Chaturvedi, P., Insana, M., and Hall, T., 1998, "2-D Companding for Noise Reduction in Strain Imaging," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, 45, pp. 179-191. (Pubitemid 128748678)
21. Varghese, T., 2009, "Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography," Ultrasound Clin., 4(3), pp. 323-338.
22. Ophir, J., Céspedes, I., Garra, B., Ponnekanti, H., Huang, Y., and Maklad, N., 1996, "Elastography: Ultrasonic Imaging of Tissue Strain and Elastic Modulus in Vivo," Eur. J. Ultrasound, 3, pp. 49-70. (Pubitemid 26021293)
23. Chiorean, A., Duma, M., Dudea, S., Iancu, A., Roman, D. D. R., and Sfrngeu, S., 2008, "Real-Time Ultrasound Elastography of the Breast: State of the Art," Med. Ultrason., 10(2), pp. 73-82.
24. Stavros, A., Thickman, D., Rapp, C. L., Dennis, M. A., Parker, S. H., and Sisney, G. A., 1995, "Solid Breast Nodules: Use of Sonography to Distinguish Between Benign and Malignant Lesions," Radiology, 196, pp. 123-134.
25. Muradali, D., and Kulkarni, S., 2005, "Sonography of the Breast: To Core or Not to Core?," JACR, 56(5), pp. 276-288.
26. Azar, F., Metaxas, D., and Schnall, M., 2002, "Methods for Modeling and Predicting Mechanical Deformations of the Breast Under External Perturbations," Med. Image Anal., 6(1), pp. 1-27. (Pubitemid 35282815)
27. Roose, L., Maerteleire, W. D., Mollemans, W., Maes, F., and Suetens, P., 2006, "Simulation of Soft-Tissue Deformations for Breast Augmentation Planning," in Biomedical Simulation, edited by Harders et al., Springer, Berlin, pp. 197- 205. (Pubitemid 44153536)
28. Rajagopal, V., Nielsen, P., and Nash, M., 2009, "Modeling Breast Biomechanics for Multi-Modal Image Analysis-Successes and Challenges," WIREs Syst. Biol. Med., 1(2), pp. 151-282.
29. Patil, A. V., Krouskop, T. A., Ophir, J., and Srinivasan, S., 2008, "On the Differences Between Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Simulations for Assessing Elastographic Image Quality: A Simulation Study," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 34(7), pp. 1129-1138. (Pubitemid 351893149)
30. Sosa-Cabrera, D., Krissian, K., Gonzalez-Fernandez, J., Gomez-Deniz, L., Rovaris, E., Castano-Moraga, C., and Ruiz-Alzola J., 2009, "Strain Tensor Elastography: 2D and 3D Visualizations," Tensors in Image Processing and Computer Vision, Springer, London, Part IV, pp. 381-403.
31. Samani, A., Bishop, J., Yaffe, M., and Plewes, D., 2001, "Biomechanical 3-D Finite Element Modelling of the Human Breast Using Mri Data," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, 20(4), pp. 271-279. (Pubitemid 32536136)
32. Tanner, C., Degenhard, A., Schnabel, J. A., Smith, A. C., Hayes, C., Sonoda, L. I., Leach, M. O., Hose, D. R., Hill, D. L. G., and Hawkes, D. J., 2001, "A Method for the Comparison of Biomechanical Breast Models," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis.
33. Rajagopal, V., Chung, J.-H., Bullivant, D., Nielsen, P. M. F., and Nash, M. P., 2007, "Determining the Finite Elasticity Reference State from a Loaded Configuration," Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng., 72(12), pp. 1434-1451. (Pubitemid 350268742)
34. Rajagopal, V., Nash, M., Highnam, R., and Nielsen, P., 2008, "The Breast Biomechanics Reference State for Multi-Modal Image Analysis," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: InternationalWorkshop on Digital Mammography, pp. 385-392.
35. Rajagopal, V., Lee, A., Chung, J., Warren, R., Highnam, R., Nash, M., and Nielsen, P., 2008, "Creating Individual-Specific Biomechanical Models of the Breast for Medical Image Analysis," Acad. Radiol., 15, pp. 1425-1436.
36. Krouskop, T., Wheeler, T., Kallel, F., Garra, B., and Hall, T., 1998, "Elastic Moduli of Breast and Prostate Tissues Under Compression," Ultrason. Imaging, 20, pp. 260-274. (Pubitemid 29168827)
37. Wellman, P., Howe, R., Dalton, E., and Kern, K., 1999, "Breast Tissue Stiffness in Compression is Correlated to Histological Diagnosis," Technical Report, Harvard Biorobotics Lab.
38. Samani, A., and Plewes, D., 2007, "An Inverse Problem Solution for Measuring the Elastic Modulus of Intact Ex Vivo Breast Tissues," Phys. Med. Biol., 52, pp. 1247-1260. (Pubitemid 46646385)
39. Williams, C. B., 1997, "X-Photon-to-Information Conversion Efficiency in Digital Telemammography," Technical Report, Ohio State University.
40. Han, L., Noble, J. A., and Burcher, M., 2003, "A Novel Ultrasound Indentation System for Measuring Biomechanical Properties of in Vivo Soft Tissue," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 29(6), pp. 813-823. (Pubitemid 36808634)
41. Egorov, V., and Sarvazyan, A., 2008, "Mechanical Image of the Breast," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, 27(9), pp. 1275-1287.
42. Samani, A., Zubovits, J., and Plewes, D., 2007, "Elastic Moduli of Normal and Pathological Human Breast Tissues: An Inversion-Technique- Based Investigation of 169 Samples," Phys. Med. Biol., 52, pp. 1565- 1576. (Pubitemid 46646367)
43. Samani, A., and Plewes, D., 2004, "A Method to Measure the Hyperelastic Parameters of ex Vivo Breast Tissue Samples," Phys. Med. Biol., 49, pp. 4395- 4405.
44. Tanner, C., Schanabel, J., Hill, D., and Hawkes, D., 2006, "Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Biomechanical Breast Models," Med. Phys., 33(6), pp. 1758- 1769.
45. del Palomar, A., Calvo, B., Herrero, J., López, J., and Doblaré, M., 2008, "A Finite Element Model to Accurately Predict Real Deformations of the Breast," Med. Eng. Phys., 30(9), pp. 1089-1097.
46. Kallel, F., and Ophir, M. B. J., 1996, "Fundamental Limitations on the Contrast- Transfer Efficiency in Elastography: an Analytic Study," Ultrasound Med. Biol., 22(4), pp. 463-470. (Pubitemid 26166938)
47. Celi, S., Di Puccio, F., and Forte, P., 2005, "Sensitivity of Angioplasty Effects to Vessel Material Properties by Probabilistic Analysis," Proceedings of the II International Conference on Computational Bioengineering, edited by H. Rodrigues et al., Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 567-578.
48. Sheskin, D. J., 1997, Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures, CRC, Boca Raton, Florida.