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14 September 2019 Structured light imaging for breast-conserving surgery, part II: texture analysis and classification
Samuel S. Streeter, Benjamin W. Maloney, David M. McClatchy, Michael Jermyn, Brian W. Pogue, Elizabeth J. Rizzo, Wendy A. Wells, Keith D. Paulsen
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Abstract

Subdiffuse spatial frequency domain imaging (sd-SFDI) data of 42 freshly excised, bread-loafed tumor resections from breast-conserving surgery (BCS) were evaluated using texture analysis and a machine learning framework for tissue classification. Resections contained 56 regions of interest (RoIs) determined by expert histopathological analysis. RoIs were coregistered with sd-SFDI data and sampled into ∼4  ×  4  mm2 subimage samples of confirmed and homogeneous histological categories. Sd-SFDI reflectance textures were analyzed using gray-level co-occurrence matrix pixel statistics, image primitives, and power spectral density curve parameters. Texture metrics exhibited statistical significance (p-value  <  0.05) between three benign and three malignant tissue subtypes. Pairs of benign and malignant subtypes underwent texture-based, binary classification with correlation-based feature selection. Classification performance was evaluated using fivefold cross-validation and feature grid searching. Classification using subdiffuse, monochromatic reflectance (illumination spatial frequency of fx  =  1.37  mm  −  1, optical wavelength of λ  =  490  nm) achieved accuracies ranging from 0.55 (95% CI: 0.41 to 0.69) to 0.95 (95% CI: 0.90 to 1.00) depending on the benign–malignant diagnosis pair. Texture analysis of sd-SFDI data maintains the spatial context within images, is free of light transport model assumptions, and may provide an alternative, computationally efficient approach for wide field-of-view (cm2) BCS tumor margin assessment relative to pixel-based optical scatter or color properties alone.

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Samuel S. Streeter, Benjamin W. Maloney, David M. McClatchy, Michael Jermyn, Brian W. Pogue, Elizabeth J. Rizzo, Wendy A. Wells, and Keith D. Paulsen "Structured light imaging for breast-conserving surgery, part II: texture analysis and classification," Journal of Biomedical Optics 24(9), 096003 (14 September 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.24.9.096003
Received: 10 April 2019; Accepted: 14 August 2019; Published: 14 September 2019
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Cited by 14 scholarly publications and 1 patent.
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KEYWORDS
Tissues

Reflectivity

Image classification

Tissue optics

Surgery

Statistical analysis

Spatial frequencies

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