Habitat-based ultrasound radiomics for preoperative prediction of axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer: a two-center study
Zimeng Fang, Xiaoyu Yan, Yunyun Zhan, Yu Bi, Xiabi Wu, Mingdi Fang, Yufan Zhang, Jiajia Wang, Mei Peng · 2026
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Fang and co-authors ask whether the texture inside an armpit lymph node, read by ultrasound, can foretell breast cancer spread before surgery. Knowing whether cancer has reached those nodes shapes the operation, yet certainty waits for pathology. The team studied 416 patients at two Chinese hospitals. Their method splits each node into four habitat zones by pixel patterns, then extracts radiomic features from each zone.
Two clinical features — the node's cortical thickness and its blood flow pattern — also carried independent signal. The habitat model beat whole-node and single-zone models at every site, and a combined chart adding the clinical features did best of all and held up in the outside hospital's patients. Decision analysis suggested the chart would help real choices. The authors offer it as a noninvasive aid for planning surgery, noting the nodes were outlined by hand — a step future tools should automate.
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| CREATOR | Zimeng Fang, Xiaoyu Yan, Yunyun Zhan, Yu Bi, Xiabi Wu, Mingdi Fang, Yufan Zhang, Jiajia Wang, Mei Peng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |