High throughput image cytometry for detection of suspicious lesions in the oral cavity

Calum E. MacAulay; Catherine F. Poh; Martial Guillaud; Pamella M. Williams; Denise M. Laronde; Lewei Zhang; Miriam Rosin

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.17.8.086004

7 August 2012 High throughput image cytometry for detection of suspicious lesions in the oral cavity

Calum E. MacAulay, Catherine F. Poh, Martial Guillaud, Pamella M. Williams, Denise M. Laronde, Lewei Zhang, Miriam Rosin

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Funded by: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 17, Issue 8, 086004 (August 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.8.086004

Abstract

The successful management of oral cancer depends upon early detection, which relies heavily on the clinician's ability to discriminate sometimes subtle alterations of the infrequent premalignant lesions from the more common reactive and inflammatory conditions in the oral mucosa. Even among experienced oral specialists this can be challenging, particularly when using new wide field-of-view direct fluorescence visualization devices clinically introduced for the recognition of at-risk tissue. The objective of this study is to examine if quantitative cytometric analysis of oral brushing samples could facilitate the assessment of the risk of visually ambiguous lesions. About 369 cytological samples were collected and analyzed: (1) 148 samples from pathology-proven sites of SCC, carcinoma in situ or severe dysplasia; (2) 77 samples from sites with inflammation, infection, or trauma, and (3) 144 samples from normal sites. These were randomly separated into training and test sets. The best algorithm correctly recognized 92.5% of the normal samples, 89.4% of the abnormal samples, 86.2% of the confounders in the training set as well as 100% of the normal samples, and 94.4% of the abnormal samples in the test set. These data suggest that quantitative cytology could reduce by more than 85% the number of visually suspect lesions requiring further assessment by biopsy.

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Calum E. MacAulay, Catherine F. Poh, Martial Guillaud, Pamella M. Williams, Denise M. Laronde, Lewei Zhang, and Miriam Rosin "High throughput image cytometry for detection of suspicious lesions in the oral cavity," Journal of Biomedical Optics 17(8), 086004 (7 August 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.8.086004

Published: 7 August 2012

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