Open AccessEvaluation of Morphological Changes in Breast Cancer: Influence of Fractal Meta-Analysis
Author(s) -
Seyed Abbas Mirmalek,
Mohammad Tafazoli Shadpour,
Minoo Saatian,
Raeesi Homa,
E Jafargholi Rangraz,
Masoud Salehi,
Seyed Alireza,
Salimi Tabatabaee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
galen medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-2767
pISSN - 2322-2379
DOI - 10.31661/gmj.v3i2.233
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , fractal , fractal analysis , pathological , sample size determination , ductal carcinoma , oncology , cancer , fractal dimension , pathology , radiology , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Many studies suggested that fractals could be brought in any structural anarchy, such as cancers, for diagnosis and prognosis evaluation by quantifying it and expressing it in terms of fractal geometry. In this study, we aimed to evaluate pathologic grades or breast carcinomas by fractal analysis. This cross-sectional study was performed on 60 women with breast ductal carcinoma. From all the patients some photographs from the smears with pathological standard and with a digital camera were taken to analyze them by MATLAB software via Box-Counting method. The used analytical methods were ANOVA and T tests. There was a significant association between fractal count and the pathological grade (P<0.05). According to the findings of this study, fractal count was a prognostic indicator in breast cancer patients. However, we recommended performing further studies with higher sample size and in other types of cancers.