Towards the use of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for real-time in vivo detection of breast cancer during surgery
Lisanne L. De Boer (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
T.M. Bydlon (Philips Research)
Frederieke van Duijnhoven (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
Marie Jeanne T.F.D. Vranken Peeters (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
Claudette E. Loo (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
Gonneke A.O. Winter-Warnars (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
J. Sanders (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
H.J.C.M. Sterenborg (Amsterdam UMC, Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
Benno Hendriks (TU Delft - Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology, Philips Research)
Theodoor J.M. Ruers (University of Twente, Nederlands Kanker Instituut - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis)
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Abstract
Background: Breast cancer surgeons struggle with differentiating healthy tissue from cancer at the resection margin during surgery. We report on the feasibility of using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) for real-time in vivo tissue characterization. Methods: Evaluating feasibility of the technology requires a setting in which measurements, imaging and pathology have the best possible correlation. For this purpose an optical biopsy needle was used that had integrated optical fibers at the tip of the needle. This approach enabled the best possible correlation between optical measurement volume and tissue histology. With this optical biopsy needle we acquired real-time DRS data of normal tissue and tumor tissue in 27 patients that underwent an ultrasound guided breast biopsy procedure. Five additional patients were measured in continuous mode in which we obtained DRS measurements along the entire biopsy needle trajectory. We developed and compared three different support vector machine based classification models to classify the DRS measurements. Results: With DRS malignant tissue could be discriminated from healthy tissue. The classification model that was based on eight selected wavelengths had the highest accuracy and Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) of 0.93 and 0.87, respectively. In three patients that were measured in continuous mode and had malignant tissue in their biopsy specimen, a clear transition was seen in the classified DRS measurements going from healthy tissue to tumor tissue. This transition was not seen in the other two continuously measured patients that had benign tissue in their biopsy specimen. Conclusions: It was concluded that DRS is feasible for integration in a surgical tool that could assist the breast surgeon in detecting positive resection margins during breast surgery. Trail registration NIH US National Library of Medicine-clinicaltrails.gov, NCT01730365. Registered: 10/04/2012 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01730365
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