Document Type

Article

Source Publication Title

Biomedical Optics Express

First Page

1825

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.3.001825

Abstract

This study investigates the use of two spectroscopic techniques, auto-fluorescence lifetime measurement (AFLM) and light reflectance spectroscopy (LRS), for detecting invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) in human ex vivo breast specimens. AFLM used excitation at 447 nm with multiple emission wavelengths (532, 562, 632, and 644 nm), at which autofluorescence lifetimes and their weight factors were analyzed using a double exponent model. LRS measured reflectance spectra in the range of 500-840 nm and analyzed the spectral slopes empirically at several distinct spectral regions. Our preliminary results based on 93 measured locations (i.e., 34 IDC, 31 benign fibrous, 28 adipose) from 6 specimens show significant differences in 5 AFLM-derived parameters and 9 LRS-based spectral slopes between benign and malignant breast samples. Multinomial logistic regression with a 10-fold cross validation approach was implemented with selected features to classify IDC from benign fibrous and adipose tissues for the two techniques independently as well as for the combined dual-modality approach. The accuracy for classifying IDC was found to be 96.4 ± 0.8%, 92.3 ± 0.8% and 96 ± 1.3% for LRS, AFLM, and dual-modality, respectively.

Disciplines

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering | Engineering

Publication Date

8-1-2012

Language

English

Comments

The authors thank Dr. Georgios Alexandrakis and Dr. Digant Dave from UT Arlington, for helpful discussions on AFLM measurements. The authors are grateful to Dr. Ignacy Gryczynski from the University of North Texas Health Science Center for his technical suggestions. Also, we thank Dr. Nancy Rowe from UT Arlington for statistics support in mixed model analysis.

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