To establish the ultrasonic decision tree model for predicting different subtypes of invasive breast cancer
and to analyze the clinical value of the model.
Methods:
A total of 420 invasive breast cancer patients were analyzed retrospectively
which were confirmed by pathology. All patients were divided
into 4 molecular subtypes: Luminal A (LA) type (
n
=137)
Luminal B (LB) type (
n
=157)
human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 over-expression (HER2
+
) type (
n
=61) and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) type (
n
=65). The ultrasonic and clinical features of patients were evaluated by analysis of variance and Fisher exact probability test
and the statistically significant features were included in the decision tree model for molecular subtype identification of breast cancer. The corresponding area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves (AUC) were calculated to assess the performance of each decision tree.
Results:
Seven features
including clinical stage
maximum diameter
echo patterns
posterior acoustic features
calcification pattern
the position of calcification
and lymph node metastasis
were statistically significantdifferences (
P
<0.05) among four molecular subtypes. The AUC of LA
LB
HER2
+
and TNBC type decision tree models were 0.721
0.708
0.722
0.877 respectively in training sets. Moreover
the sensitivity of the decision tree model (81.0%) for TNBC type was higher than that of the senior sonographer.
Conclusion:
The decision tree built by ultrasonic and clinical features has favorable value in the prediction of breast cancer molecular subtypes with high diagnostic accuracy.
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