TY - JOUR
T1 - Detection of precancerous lesions in the oral cavity using oblique polarized reflectance spectroscopy
T2 - A clinical feasibility study
AU - Bailey, Maria J.
AU - Verma, Nishant
AU - Fradkin, Leonid
AU - Lam, Sylvia
AU - Macaulay, Calum
AU - Poh, Catherine
AU - Markey, Mia K.
AU - Sokolov, Konstantin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - We developed a multifiber optical probe for oblique polarized reflectance spectroscopy (OPRS) in vivo and evaluated its performance in detection of dysplasia in the oral cavity. The probe design allows the implementation of a number of methods to enable depth resolved spectroscopic measurements including polarization gating, source-detector separation, and differential spectroscopy; this combination was evaluated in carrying out binary classification tasks between four major diagnostic categories: normal, benign, mild dysplasia (MD), and severe dysplasia (SD). Multifiber OPRS showed excellent performance in the discrimination of normal from benign, MD, SD, and MD plus SD yielding sensitivity/specificity values of 100%/93%, 96%/95%, 100%/98%, and 100%/100%, respectively. The classification of benign versus dysplastic lesions was more challenging with sensitivity and specificity values of 80%/93%, 71%/93%, and 74%/80% in discriminating benign from SD, MD, and SD plus MD categories, respectively; this challenge is most likely associated with a strong and highly variable scattering from a keratin layer that was found in these sites. Classification based on multiple fibers was significantly better than that based on any single detection pair for tasks dealing with benign versus dysplastic sites. This result indicates that the multifiber probe can perform better in the detection of dysplasia in keratinized tissues.
AB - We developed a multifiber optical probe for oblique polarized reflectance spectroscopy (OPRS) in vivo and evaluated its performance in detection of dysplasia in the oral cavity. The probe design allows the implementation of a number of methods to enable depth resolved spectroscopic measurements including polarization gating, source-detector separation, and differential spectroscopy; this combination was evaluated in carrying out binary classification tasks between four major diagnostic categories: normal, benign, mild dysplasia (MD), and severe dysplasia (SD). Multifiber OPRS showed excellent performance in the discrimination of normal from benign, MD, SD, and MD plus SD yielding sensitivity/specificity values of 100%/93%, 96%/95%, 100%/98%, and 100%/100%, respectively. The classification of benign versus dysplastic lesions was more challenging with sensitivity and specificity values of 80%/93%, 71%/93%, and 74%/80% in discriminating benign from SD, MD, and SD plus MD categories, respectively; this challenge is most likely associated with a strong and highly variable scattering from a keratin layer that was found in these sites. Classification based on multiple fibers was significantly better than that based on any single detection pair for tasks dealing with benign versus dysplastic sites. This result indicates that the multifiber probe can perform better in the detection of dysplasia in keratinized tissues.
KW - cancer diagnosis, oral cavity
KW - elastic light scattering
KW - polarized light
KW - reflectance spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1117/1.JBO.22.6.065002
DO - 10.1117/1.JBO.22.6.065002
M3 - Article
C2 - 28609512
AN - SCOPUS:85021875213
SN - 1083-3668
VL - 22
JO - Journal of biomedical optics
JF - Journal of biomedical optics
IS - 6
M1 - 016007
ER -