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The objective of this study was to investigate whether fractal analysis of Kirsch edge images for the tissue fragment inner structure (FKT) is useful in breast FNAB. FKT measures tissue fragment chromasia of hyperchromatic crowded tissue fragments (HCG), tissue fragment shape unevenness, and tissue fragment inner structure complexity. <b><i>Study Design Materials:<\/i><\/b> Nineteen epithelial tissue fragments of fibroadenoma (FA) from 7 patients and 52 tissue fragments of invasive breast carcinoma of no special type (IBC-NST) (grade 1\u20132) from 11 patients were assessed. First, tissue fragments were classified into small (smaller than 60 \u00d7 102 \u03bcm<sup>2<\/sup>), medium, and large (100 \u00d7 102 \u03bcm<sup>2<\/sup> or larger), and the appearance rate of each size was determined. Second, for FKT, the luminance value of tissue fragment chromasia, the unevenness and fractal value, and the tissue fragment inner structure complexity were determined. In statistical analysis, the Steel-Dwass test, nonlinear discriminant analysis, and receiver operating characteristic analysis were performed, setting the significance level at <i>p<\/i> &#x3c; 0.05. <b><i>Results:<\/i><\/b> \u201cUnevenness of the tissue fragment shape,\u201d \u201cfractal value of the tissue fragment shape,\u201d and \u201cfractal value of the tissue fragment inner structure\u201d were significantly higher in small and large tissue fragments in IBC-NST compared with those in FA. The specificity and sensitivity were the highest (100%) in small tissue fragments in multivariate analysis using 4 variables (\u201cluminance value of tissue fragment chromasia,\u201d \u201cunevenness of tissue fragment shape,\u201d \u201cfractal value of the tissue fragment shape,\u201d and \u201cfractal value of the tissue fragment inner structure\u201d). <b><i>Conclusion:<\/i><\/b> FKT, which evaluates \u201ctissue fragment darkness,\u201d \u201ctissue fragment shape unevenness,\u201d and \u201ctissue fragment inner structure complexity\u201d focusing on small tissue fragments of HCG in breast FNAB, is useful as a system that assists cytopathological assessment of breast FNAB. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1159\/000519490","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,28]],"date-time":"2021-10-28T21:00:42Z","timestamp":1635454842000},"page":"149-158","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Usefulness of Fractal Analysis of Kirsch Edge Images for the Tissue Fragment Inner Structure in Breast FNAB"],"prefix":"10.1159","volume":"66","author":[{"given":"Haruhiko","family":"Yoshioka","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tsubasa","family":"Shimoda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sota","family":"Oikawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Satoko","family":"Morohashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yoshie","family":"Hasegawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kayo","family":"Horie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Watanabe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"127","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/cncr.20735"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7860\/JCDR\/2016\/20817.8575"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-1-4614-1876-4_2"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/dc.23701"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ppr\/114.1.s36"},{"key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/cyt.12040"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4103\/1742-6413.156081"},{"key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0010-4809(71)90034-6"},{"key":"ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/(sici)1096-9896(199705)182:1%3c1::aid-path808%3e3.0.co;2-b"},{"key":"ref10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.6010\/geoinformatics1990.8.1_23"},{"key":"ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159\/000509668"},{"key":"ref12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159\/000512096"},{"key":"ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4103\/JOC.JOC_135_17"}],"container-title":["Acta Cytologica"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Pdf\/519490","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Pdf\/519490","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,23]],"date-time":"2025-04-23T15:26:05Z","timestamp":1745421965000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/karger.com\/article\/doi\/10.1159\/000519490"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,28]]},"references-count":13,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,10]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,3]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1159\/000519490","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0001-5547","1938-2650"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0001-5547"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1938-2650"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,28]]}}}