Abstract #0634
            Diffusion Weighted Imaging in Accurate Classification of Complex Ovarian Masses: A Whole-Tumor Heterogeneity Quantification Approach
                      Anahita Fathi Kazerooni                     1,2                    , Mojtaba Safari                     1                    , 						Hamidreza Haghighatkhah                     3                    , Mahnaz Nabil                     4                    , 						and Hamidreza Saligheh Rad                     1,2          
            
            1
           
           Quantitative MR Imaging and Spectroscopy 
						Group, Research Center for Molecular and Cellular 
						Imaging, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 
						Iran,
           
            2
           
           Department 
						of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of 
						Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 
						Iran,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Radiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti 
						University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran,
           
            4
           
           Department 
						of Statistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
          
            
          Successful treatment outcome in complex ovarian masses 
						depends on their accurate characterization. Despite the 
						critical role of quantitative ADC-maps in 
						characterization of pathologies, their contribution is 
						still a matter of debate in complex ovarian masses. This 
						is mainly due to the inherently high heterogeneity of 
						this type of tumor, both in inter- and intra-patient 
						levels. To overcome this challenging issue, in this 
						work, we have carried out whole-tumor texture analysis 
						on ADC-maps to quantitatively account for heterogeneous 
						pattern of ovarian cancers. Moreover, we exploit an 
						automated classification approach for evaluation and 
						selection of the best representative features of tumor 
						non-uniformity.
         
				
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