Dynamic Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging versus Ultrasonic Diffused Optical Tomography in Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

OBJECTIVE: To compare the application value of dynamic enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonic diffused optical tomography (DOT) in early diagnosis of breast cancer. METHODS: The clinical data of 110 female patients with breast diseases treated in our hospital from June 2018 to June 2021 were selected for the retrospective analysis, and the patients were divided into the benign lesion group (n = 50) and breast cancer group (n = 60) according to the pathologic findings. All patients received dynamic enhanced MRI and ultrasonic DOT examinations for the observation of lesion morphology and analysis of relevant parameters, so as to scientifically evaluate the diagnostic value of dynamic enhanced MRI and ultrasonic DOT for early breast cancer. RESULTS: The dynamic enhanced MRI examination found that the proportions of irregular shape, increased vascular shadow, obscure boundary, spicule sign, heterogeneous enhancement, etc. of lesion were significantly higher in the breast cancer group than in the benign lesion group (P < 0.05); parameters such as K(trans), K(ep), and V(e) were significantly higher in the breast cancer group than in the benign lesion group (P < 0.05); the ultrasonic DOT diagnosis found that the THC value was obviously lower in the benign lesion group than in the breast cancer group (P < 0.05); compared with the pathologic findings, it was believed that combined diagnosis had significantly higher diagnosis accuracy rate, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value than the dynamic enhanced MRI and ultrasonic DOT diagnosis alone (P < 0.05); and after further analyzing the efficacy of the two diagnosis modalities in diagnosing early breast cancer by ROC curves, the result showed combined diagnosis > dynamic enhanced MRI > ultrasonic DOT. CONCLUSION: Both dynamic enhanced MRI and ultrasonic DOT present higher diagnostic value to early breast cancer, of which dynamic enhanced MRI obtains results closer to the pathologic findings and has diagnostic efficacy higher than ultrasonic DOT. But the combination of the two can significantly improve the diagnosis accuracy rate for early breast cancer, presenting higher diagnostic value.