[Retracted] Diagnostic Significance of 3D Automated Breast Volume Scanner in a Combination with Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound for Breast Cancer

Abstract

The incidence of cancer is increasing today, particularly lung and chest cancer. Employing novel methods to detect cancer in its earliest stages and discover painless, noninvasive treatments are urgently needed. The goal of the proposed study is to investigate the value of automated breast volume scanning (ABUS) in conjunction with contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in properly diagnosing breast cancer in its early stages and the effectiveness of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in treating the disease. For the research study, information on 98 patients who had NAC and surgery in the breast surgery department of the Shaanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital has been gathered. All patients have received four cycles of NAC and underwent conventional ultrasound (HUSS), CEUS, ABUS, and pathological examination. At the same time, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, single factor, multiple linear regression, and other methods have also been used to analyze the diagnostic efficacy of breast cancer and NAC efficacy evaluation results. The study of this paper is totally based on the data collected from Shaanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital. The statistical and computational analyses are performed on the data collected for drawing inferences. When the findings are compared to the results of the pathological examination, HUSS has demonstrated a significant distinction between benign and malignant diagnoses with a statistical value of P < 0.05 .ABUS combined with CEUS has shown no considerable differences in correlation study. Except for negative likelihood ratio, the diagnostic performance indexes of CEUS+ ABUS are substantially higher than HHUS with P < 0.05 . ROC curve analysis is also performed which shows that CEUS and ABUS combination has higher precision in the analysis of breast cancer. ABUS pooled with CEUS shows great application value in the judgment of breast cancer as per the results obtained from the statistical analysis on data of 98 patients.

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the diagnostic capability of automated breast ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in breast cancer

“…Quan et al. ( 39 ) indicated in the recently published literature that ABUS pooled with CEUS had higher precision in the analysis of BC and showed great application value in the judgment of breast cancer. In addition, Yongwei et al.…”

“…The combination of the two may help to improve the ability to diagnose breast cancer. Quan et al (39) indicated in the recently published literature that ABUS pooled with CEUS had higher precision in the analysis of BC and showed great application value in the judgment of breast cancer. In addition, Yongwei et al (40) aimed to evaluate the role of ABUS and CEUS in the early prediction of the treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in patients with BC and found that the CEUS-ABUS model could be ABUS, automated breast ultrasound; CEUS, contrast-enhanced ultrasound; PLR, the positive likelihood ratio; NLR, the negative likelihood ratio used clinically to optimize the treatment of patients with breast cancer.…”

Retracted: Diagnostic Significance of 3D Automated Breast Volume Scanner in a Combination with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Breast Cancer

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