An early imaging assessment of breast cancer’s response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is critical for timely planning of treatment strategies. In this study, we develop a machine-learning-based approach to investigate whether the combined features obtained from the intravoxel incoherent motion and continuous-time random-walk diffusion models provide an early prediction of pathologic response in patients receiving NAC. Our results have shown that a gradient boosting classifier trained with the early-treatment parametric changes within tumor can predict the response with an accuracy that is 96% of the accuracy achieved by using the post-treatment parametric changes.
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