Elastic scattering spectroscopy for early detection of breast cancer: partially supervised Bayesian image classification of scanned sentinel lymph nodes

Zhu Ying; Tom Fearn; D. Wayne Chicken; Martin R. Austwick; Santosh K. Somasundaram; Charles A. Mosse; Benjamin Clark; Irving J. Bigio; Mohammed R. S. Keshtgar; Stephen G. Bown

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.23.8.085004

21 August 2018 Elastic scattering spectroscopy for early detection of breast cancer: partially supervised Bayesian image classification of scanned sentinel lymph nodes

Zhu Ying, Tom Fearn, D. Wayne Chicken, Martin R. Austwick, Santosh K. Somasundaram, Charles A. Mosse, Benjamin Clark, Irving J. Bigio, Mohammed R. S. Keshtgar, Stephen G. Bown

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 23, Issue 8, 085004 (August 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.23.8.085004

Abstract

Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a standard diagnosis procedure to determine whether breast cancer has spread to the lymph glands in the armpit (the axillary nodes). The metastatic status of the sentinel node (the first node in the axillary chain that drains the affected breast) is the determining factor in surgery between conservative lumpectomy and more radical mastectomy including axillary node excision. The traditional assessment of the node requires sample preparation and pathologist interpretation. An automated elastic scattering spectroscopy (ESS) scanning device was constructed to take measurements from the entire cut surface of the excised sentinel node and to produce ESS images for cancer diagnosis. Here, we report on a partially supervised image classification scheme employing a Bayesian multivariate, finite mixture model with a Markov random field (MRF) spatial prior. A reduced dimensional space was applied to represent the scanning data of the node by a statistical image, in which normal, metastatic, and nonnodal-tissue pixels are identified. Our results show that our model enables rapid imaging of lymph nodes. It can be used to recognize nonnodal areas automatically at the same time as diagnosing sentinel node metastases with sensitivity and specificity of 85% and 94%, respectively. ESS images can help surgeons by providing a reliable and rapid intraoperative determination of sentinel nodal metastases in breast cancer.

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Zhu Ying, Tom Fearn, D. Wayne Chicken, Martin R. Austwick, Santosh K. Somasundaram, Charles A. Mosse, Benjamin Clark, Irving J. Bigio, Mohammed R. S. Keshtgar, and Stephen G. Bown "Elastic scattering spectroscopy for early detection of breast cancer: partially supervised Bayesian image classification of scanned sentinel lymph nodes," Journal of Biomedical Optics 23(8), 085004 (21 August 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.23.8.085004

Received: 21 January 2018; Accepted: 9 July 2018; Published: 21 August 2018

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