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Predicting of Ki-67 Expression Level Using Diffusion-Weighted and Synthetic Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Invasive
Liying Zhang1, Jisen Hao1, Jia Guo1
1Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Department of Radiology, Zhengzhou, China.
Objectives:
To investigate the association between quantitative parameters generated using synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and Ki-67 expression level in patients with invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC).
Method:
We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients with IDC who underwent SyMRI and DWI before treatment. Precontrast and postcontrast relaxation times (T1, longitudinal; T2, transverse), proton density (PD) parameters, and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values were measured in breast lesions. Univariate and multivariate regression analyses were performed to screen for statistically significant variables to differentiate the high (≥30%) and low (<30%) Ki-67 expression groups. Their performance was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.
Results:
We analyzed 97 patients. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that the high Ki-67 expression group (n = 57) had significantly higher parameters generated using SyMRI (pre-T1, p=0.001) and lower ADC values (p=0.036) compared with the low Ki-67 expression group (n = 40). Pre-T1 showed the best diagnostic performance for predicting the Ki-67 expression level in patients with invasive ductal breast cancer (areas under the ROC curve (AUC), 0.711; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.609-0.813).
Conclusions:
Pre-T1 could be used to predict the pretreatment Ki-67 expression level in invasive ductal breast cancer.
