Abstract GS4-06: Radiomic phenotypes of breast texture and association with breast cancer risk and masking
Authors: Winham Stacey , McCarthy Anne Marie , Gastounioti Aimilia , Scott Christopher , Norman Aaron , Mankowski Walter C. , Pantalone Lauren , Jensen Matthew , Cohen Eric A. , Horng Hannah , Brandt Kathleen , Conant Emily F. , Kerlikowske Karla , Kontos Despina , Vachon Celine 
Published: March 2023

Breast parenchymal patterns on radiologic images are associated with breast cancer risk. Radiomic features have been proposed as quantitative measures of parenchymal patterns. We defined intrinsic imaging phenotypes of breast parenchymal patterns based on radiomic features extracted from full field digital mammography (FFDM) in breast screening populations and assessed whether these phenotypes are associated with breast cancer risk and masking. We selected 30,000 women with 4-view FFDM exams from Hologic machines from three institutions (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Mayo Clinic, and San Francisco Mammography Registry), randomly split into a training (20,000 women) and test set (10,000 women). In total, 390 radiomic features were automatically extracted from each image using a validated software pipeline, standardized, and adjusted for site differences using ComBat. We used two methods, hierarchical clustering and Principal Components (PCs) analysis, to classify significant variation among the features in the training set and replicate among the test set. Next, we applied the replicated clusters and PCs to an independent nested case-control set [1082 invasive breast cancer (BC) cases (of which 151 were Black and 893 White women, 38 other race) matched to 2837 controls (411 Black and 2345 White women, 81 other race) on age, race, timing of images, and site]. We examined associations of the clusters and PCs with invasive breast cancer risk, as well as masking [defined as a false-negative (FN) screen (124 cases and 319 matched controls) and additionally the subset with symptomatic interval cancer (IC) within 12 months of negative screen (88 cases and 223 matched controls)] using conditional logistic regression. We evaluated their association with breast cancer alone, and with adjustment for age, body mass index (BMI) and breast density assessed by Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) using likelihood ratio tests. We estimated discrimination using area under the curve (AUC) and compared AUCs for models that included the radiomic clusters and PCs with the model that included only age, BMI and density. We also stratified analyses by race (Black/White). From hierarchical clustering, we defined six statistically significant phenotype clusters (each of at least 1000 women) in the training set which were replicated in the test set. For PC Analysis, we identified six PCs in the training set, explaining 85% of the variation in texture features and reproduced these in the test set. The six radiomic phenotype clusters (P&lt; 0.001) and six PCs (P&lt; 0.001) were both associated with invasive BC, including after adjusting for age, BMI, and density (cluster P=0.004; PCs P&lt; 0.001). Improvements in discrimination of invasive BC with inclusion of PCs or clusters were more pronounced among Black women (Table). Further, the PCs (P&lt; 0.001) and clusters (P&lt; 0.001) were significantly associated with FN overall and for symptomatic IC (PCs P&lt; 0.001; clusters P=0.001), but only PCs remained significant after adjusting for age, BMI and density (PCs P=0.004 for FN; PCs P=0.007 for symptomatic IC). Discrimination of masking also improved with inclusion of both clusters and PCs (Table). We identified reproducible radiomic phenotypes that are associated with invasive BC risk, above and beyond breast density with the strongest associations for invasive BC among Black women and symptomatic interval cancers.

Citation Format: Stacey Winham, Anne Marie McCarthy, Aimilia Gastounioti, Christopher Scott, Aaron Norman, Walter C. Mankowski, Lauren Pantalone, Matthew Jensen, Eric A. Cohen, Hannah Horng, Kathleen Brandt, Emily F. Conant, Karla Kerlikowske, Despina Kontos, Celine Vachon. Radiomic phenotypes of breast texture and association with breast cancer risk and masking [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2022 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(5 Suppl):Abstract nr GS4-06.