PET/MRI Machine Learning Model May Eliminate Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Majority of Breast Cancer Patients
Patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer receive a PET/MRI scan to investigate involvement of the axillary lymph nodes. The radiologist then assesses whether lymph node involvement is present (node positive vs. node negative) based on easily assessable lymph node morphological and metabolic criteria. Based on this data, a random forest model is trained. Thus, the …