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Abstract #0282

Breast lesion classification accuracy using intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion modelling is improved by incorporating all parameters and informative Bayesian priors

Neil Peter Jerome1,2, Igor Vidić3, Tone Frost Bathen1, Pål Erik Goa3, and Peter Thomas While4

1Institute for Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, 2Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway, 3Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, 4Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Strategies for intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) diffusion imaging acquisition and analysis are often framed in terms of curve-matching, whereas for breast lesions, classification accuracy against histopathologic assessment is a true metric of functional imaging performance. In this study, we show that IVIM diffusion modelling is best able to discriminate breast lesions (23 benign, 29 malignant) when using all parameters, and when derived from Bayesian methods employing either Gaussian shrinkage or local homogeneity priors, with ROC AUC values increasing from 0.83 (D, conventional least-squares) to 0.92 (D+f+D*, shrinkage prior).

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