Value of ultrasonic S-Detect technique in diagnosis of breast masses / 南方医科大学学报

OBJECTIVE@#To evaluate the value of ultrasound S-Detect in the diagnosis of breast masses.@*METHODS@#A total of 85 breast masses in 62 female patients were diagnosed by S-Detect technique and conventional ultrasound. The diagnostic efficacy of conventional ultrasound and S-Detect technique was analyzed and compared with postoperative pathological results as the gold standard.@*RESULTS@#When operated by junior physicians, the diagnostic efficacy of conventional ultrasound was significantly lower than that of S-Detect technique (P < 0.05), but this difference was not observed in moderately experienced and senior physicians (P>0.05). S-Detect technique was positively correlated with the diagnostic results of senior physicians (r=0.97). Using S-Detect technique, the diagnostic efficacy did not differ significantly between the long axis section and its vertical section (P>0.05). Routine ultrasound showed a better diagnostic efficacy than S-Detect for breast masses with a diameter below 20 mm (P < 0.05), but for larger breast masses, its diagnostic efficacy was significantly lower than that of SDetect (P < 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#S-Detect can be used in differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast masses, and its diagnostic efficiency can be comparable with that of BI-RADS classification for moderately experienced and senior physicians, but its diagnostic efficacy can be low for breast masses less than 20 mm in diameter.

Combination of S-Detect and strain elastography in the conventional ultrasonic diagnosis of breast tumors / 中国综合临床

Objective:To explore the value of s-detect combined with elastography in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast tumors.Methods:The ultrasound diagnosis data of 136 patients with breast mass examined by ultrasound in the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College from April 2018 to January 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The breast lesions diagnosed as BI-RADS 3 or above were analyzed by conventional ultrasound, strain elastic imaging strain ratio (SR) and S-Detect Computer-aided Diagnosis (CAD) technology successively and were used for cross-sectional study. The corresponding benign and malignant judgment results were obtained, and the efficacy of individual diagnosis and combined diagnosis were compared and analyzed.Results:Conventional ultrasound, SR, S-Detect alone and conventional ultrasound+SR, conventional ultrasound+S-detect, conventional ultrasound + S-detect +SR combined diagnosis of breast tumors, the area under the receiver operating curve (AREA under the receiver operating curve) Characteristic curve, AUC) were 0.776, 0.839, 0.802, 0.861, 0.832 and 0.870, respectively. SR, S-Detect, conventional ultrasound +SR, conventional ultrasound + S-detect and conventional ultrasound +SR+ S-detect were compared with conventional ultrasound group, Z values were 1.49, 0.70, 2.76, 2.52, 2.96, respectively, and P values were 0.137, 0.484, 0.006, 0.012 and 0.003, respectively. The difference was statistically significant. The accuracy of conventional ultrasound +S-Detect+SR was the highest (84.1%), compared with pathological results, its Kappa value was 0.687, showing the strongest consistency. Conclusion:S-detect combined with strain elastography assisted by conventional ultrasound can significantly improve the diagnostic efficiency of benign and malignant breast tumors.