Clinical Study

Computerized Decision Support System for Intraoperative Analysis of Margin Status in Breast Conservation Therapy

Table 1

Slides used for system evaluation consisted of a 16-slide training/testing set.

SubsetSample numberDiagnosisHospital margin statusLocation

Training subsetA1IDC/DCISPositiveDeep
A2ILCPositiveDeep
A3IDC/ILC/DCIS/LCISPositiveLateral
A4IDCPositiveDeep
A5DCISClose (<0.1 cm)Deep
A6DCISClose (<0.1 cm)Lateral
A7IDC/DCISClose (<0.1 cm)Deep
A8IDC/DCISClose (<0.1 cm)Deep

Testing subsetT1IDCClose (<0.1 cm)Deep
T2IDC/DCIS/LCISClear (>1 cm)N/A
T3IDCClear (>1 cm)N/A
T4IDC/DCISPositiveDeep
T5IDC/DCISClose (<0.1 cm)Lateral
T6IDC/ILC/DCIS/LCISPositiveDeep
T7IDC/DCISPositiveDeep
T8ILC/LCISClose (<0.1 cm)Lateral

Pathologic tumor diagnosis (IDC: invasive ductal carcinoma, ILC: invasive lobular carcinoma, DCIS: ductal carcinoma insitu, LCIS: lobular carcinoma insitu) along with permanent section margin status (positive, close, clear) and location (superior, inferior, lateral, medial, anterior, deep) is listed.