Autofluorescence and white light imaging‐guided endoscopic Raman and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for in vivo nasopharyngeal cancer detection |
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Authors: | Jianji Pan Zhihong Xu Rong Chen Shangyuan Feng Guannan Chen Yongzeng Li Michael Short Jianhua Zhao Yasser Fawzy Haishan Zeng |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital, Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Translational Cancer Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, China;2. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Science and Technology for Medicine, Ministry of Education, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Photonics Technology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China;3. Imaging Unit—Integrative Oncology Department, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Abstract: | Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is an endemic with high incidence in Southern China and Southeast Asia countries. Screening for NPC under conventional white light imaging (WLI) nasopharyngoscope examination remains a great clinical challenge due to its poor sensitivity. Here, we developed an integrated 4‐modality endoscopy system combining WLI, autofluorescence imaging (AFI), diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy technologies for in vivo endoscopic cancer detection for the first time. A pilot clinical test of the system for NPC detection was conducted, in which 283 in vivo Raman and diffuse reflectance spectral data sets from 30 NPC patients and 30 healthy subjects were acquired under the guidance of AFI and WLI. Both high diagnostic sensitivity (98.6%) and high specificity (95.1%) for differentiating cancer from normal tissue sites were achieved using this system combined with principal component analysis‐linear discriminant analysis diagnostic algorithm, demonstrating great potential for improving real‐time, in vivo diagnosis of NPC at endoscopy. |
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Keywords: | autofluorescence imaging diffuse reflectance spectroscopy nasopharyngeal cancer detection Raman spectroscopy |
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