Summary

ACRIN 6657 was designed as a prospective study to test MRI for ability to predict response to treatment and risk-of-recurrence in patients with stage 2 or 3 breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). ACRIN 6657 was conducted as a companion study to CALGB 150007, a correlative science study evaluating tissue-based biomarkers in the setting of neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer. Collectively, CALGB 150007 and ACRIN 6657 formed the basis of the multicenter Investigation of Serial Studies to Predict Your Therapeutic Response with Imaging and moLecular Analysis (I-SPY TRIAL) breast cancer trial, a study of imaging and tissue-based biomarkers for predicting pathologic complete response (pCR) and recurrence-free survival (RFS).

Participant Eligibility and Enrollment: Criteria for inclusion were patients enrolling on CALGB 150007 with T3 tumors measuring at least 3 cm in diameter by clinical exam or imaging and receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy with an  anthracycline-cyclophosphamide regimen alone or followed by a taxane. Pregnant patients and those with ferromagnetic prostheses were excluded from the study. The study was open to enrollment from May 2002 to March 2006. 237 patients were enrolled, of which 230 met eligibility criteria.

Acknowledgements

This shared data set was provided by David Newitt, PhD and Nola Hylton, PhD from the Breast Imaging Research Program at UCSF, in collaboration with ACRIN, CALGB, the I-SPY TRIAL, and TCIA. Many thanks are due to The ACRIN 6657 trial teamThe I-SPY 1 TRIAL team, and all the patients participating in these studies

Funding sources include NIH grants to UCSF (R01 CA132870 and U01 CA151235), ACRIN (UO1 CA079778 and UO1 CA080098), and CALGB (UO1 CA31964 and UO1 CA33601).



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Detailed Description

Collection Statistics


Modalities

 MR, SEG

Number of Patients

 222

Number of Studies

847

Number of Series

7880

Number of Images

386,528

Images Size (GB)76.2 GigaBytes

Requirements for MR imaging (As specified in the ACRIN 6657 protocol )

Imaging time points: MRI exams were performed within four weeks prior to starting anthracycline-cyclophosphamide chemotherapy (T1, MRI1), at least 2 weeks after the first cycle of AC and prior to the second cycle of AC (T2, MRI2), between anthracycline-cyclophosphamide treatment and taxane therapy if taxane was administered (T3, MRI3), and after the final chemotherapy treatment and prior to surgery (T4, MRI4). The study schema is shown in Figure 1

Figure 1. CALGB 150007 and ACRIN 6657 study schema.

Imaging protocol: MR imaging was performed on a 1.5 Tesla field strength scanner using a dedicated breast radiofrequency coil. The image acquisition protocol included a localization scan and T2-weighted sequence followed by a contrast-enhanced T1-weighted series. All imaging was performed unilaterally over the symptomatic breast and in the sagittal orientation. The contrast-enhanced series consisted of a high resolution (≤1mm in-plane spatial resolution) three-dimensional, fat-suppressed, T1-weighted gradient echo sequence with TR≤20 ms, TE = 4.5 ms, flip angle ≤ 45º, 16-18 cm field-of-view, minimum matrix 256x192, 64 slices, slice thickness ≤ 2.5 mm. Scan time length for the T1-weighted sequence was required to be between 4.5 and 5 minutes. The sequence was acquired once before contrast injection and repeated at least twice following injection.  

Tumor diameter measurement and volumetric analysis: Tumor longest diameter (LD) was measured by the site radiologist as the greatest extent of disease on baseline MR images, including intervening areas of non-enhancing tissue. The same measurement direction was used on all subsequent MRI exams. The primary predictor variable, functional tumor volume (FTV) was measured from contrast-enhanced images using the signal enhancement ratio (SER) method. Volumetric analysis, including Quality Control assessment, was performed centrally at the Breast Imaging Research Program (BIRP) laboratory at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).

Detailed information about the DICOM data is available in the DICOM Dictionary.

Further information on these studies can be found at:

Imaging Data Transfer History

The processing of the MR image data for ACRIN 6657 consisted of the following steps between image acquisition and the creation of this shared data set on TCIA:

  • MRI studies were sent from the study centers to the ACRIN Core Lab either via media (DVD) or the TRIAD program
  • Image data were de-identified and centrally archived at the ACRIN Core Lab
  • Archived data was sent to the Breast Imaging Research Program (BIRP) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for volumetric analysis.
  • De-identified image data, derived analysis maps and segmentations, and ancillary data files were transferred from UCSF to TCIA for data sharing.

While every effort was made to preserve the integrity of both the original image data and image meta-data (DICOM attributes, public and private), multiple file transfers and strict adherence to HIPPA guidelines for patient confidentiality may have resulted in loss of some data. If any questions arise, or patient PHI is found in any data on this collection, please contact the UCSF Breast Imaging Research Program (BIRP)

Curated Data Sets

In addition to the complete set of ACRIN 6657 imaging studies ("Level 0" data), the following curated data sets based on UCSF QC assessment, protocol compliance and data completeness are provided:

  • Level 1:    MRI Longest Diameter (LD)
  • Level 2a:  SER Volume Dataset for ongoing volumetric analyses (updated 9/17/16)
  • Level 2b:  SER Volume Dataset for pCR Analysis (Hylton, et al; Radiology 2012)
  • Level 3:    SER Volume Dataset for RFS Analysis (Hylton, et al; Radiology, 2016)

The image data sets are accompanied by Excel files with selected patient clinical and outcome data.

Data subset Descriptions


 Data set

subjects

All Series

DCE + Derived Only

DCE Only

Clinical and outcome data

Level 0: Complete image data set222

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (76.2 GB)

NANAExcel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects
Level 1: Studies with MRI LD measurements219

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (75 GB)

NANAExcel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for subjects with LD measurements
Level 2a: Studies with SER Volume measurements207

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (63 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (43 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (24 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for subjects with good volumetric DCE
Level 3: Studies used in primary aim analysis162

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (49 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (34 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (18 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for subjects used in ACRIN 6657 Primary Aim analysis

Level 0: Complete I-SPY 1 / ACRIN 6657 MRI Dataset

This data set is comprised of all HIPPA compliant, DICOM compliant MRI series. 

Level 0 image data set consists of 847 on-study MRI studies on 222 subjects in the UCSF image database.
One patient in the image data collection (I-SPY ID 1079 ) does not appear in the Feb. 2, 2011 I-SPY FINAL LOCKED clinical data dump. So no clinical or outcome data is available for this subject.

Level 1: MRI exams for which longest diameter was measured

This data set is comprised of all studies with MRI measured longest diameter (LD) values reported.
839 MRI studies have LD reported in the I-SPY 1 clinical database, of which 5 studies are not present in either the UCSF or ACRIN image data collections (see Table 1).
Level 1 image data set consists of 834 MRI studies on 219 subjects in the UCSF image database

Table 1. Studies that have LD measurement but are missing from

the UCSF and ACRIN TRIAD image data collections:

ID 1071, T1
ID 1138, T1

ID 1101, T3
ID 1040, T4

ID 1187, T4

Level 2a: Good SER Volume Dataset – updated 9/3/14, 9/17/16

This data set is comprised of the patient studies which, following quality reviews in 2014 and 2016, were judged to have sufficiently good image quality and protocol compliance for volumetric DCE SER analysis. Rejection criteria included: incomplete volumetric DCE acquisitions, lack of a 2nd post-contrast acquisition, variability in fat suppression across the image, observed patient motion during the DCE acquisition, significant DCE protocol deviations such as changing scan parameters or image position during DCE acquisition.

Level 2a image data set consists of 706 MR studies on 207 subjects in the UCSF image database. These include 7 studies not included in Level 1 (no MRI LD recorded) as listed in Table 2.

Table 2. Studies in Level 2a (good volumetric analysis) that do NOT have LD measures:

ID 1059, T4
ID 1079, T2 *
ID 1104, T4

ID 1192, T2
ID 1212, T4

ID 1215, T1
ID 1238, T2

  • Patient 1079 does not appear in the Feb. 2, 2011 I-SPY FINAL LOCKED clinical data set. So no clinical or outcome data is available.

Level 2b: SER Volume Dataset Reported in Hylton et al. (Radiology, 2012) *

This data set is comprised of the patient studies analyzed for pCR outcome and reported in the 2012 Radiology paper on ACRIN 6657 pCR results *. This data set is not provided as a shared list, as it is not recommended for use in further analysis. It is described here because it is the data set from which the Level 3 (primary aim analysis) set was derived. Inclusion and exclusion was determined by quality and protocol reviews available at that time. In addition to the exclusion criteria listed for Level 2a, studies done with imaging in the axial plane, in violation of the sagittal orientation specified in the trial imaging protocol, were excluded due to processing limitations of the analysis software. Similarly, bi-lateral sagittal acquisitions (alternating left and right volumetric acquisitions) were excluded.

Level 2b image data set consists of 707 MRI studies on 207 subjects in the UCSF image database. 

  • Hylton NM, Blume JD, Bernreuter WK, et al: Locally advanced breast cancer: MR imaging for prediction of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy--results from ACRIN 6657/I-SPY TRIAL. Radiology 263:663-72, 2012

Tables 3 and 4 show the specific inclusion/exclusion differences between Levels 2a and 2b:

Table 3. 16 studies accepted for SER analysis since 2008 (in Level 2a but not in 2b)

ID 1005, T3
ID 1043, T2
ID 1046, T4
ID 1057, T3
ID 1074, T3
ID 1084, T1

ID 1110, T4
ID 1139, T4
ID 1159, T4
ID 1176, T2
ID 1201, T2

ID 1203, T4
ID 1206, T4
ID 1225, T3
ID 1219, T3
ID 1228, T4


Table 4. 17 studies rejected since 2008 (in Level 2b but not in 2a)
Study ID and TPReason for rejection for volumetric SER analysis (level 2a)

1007 T4 *

No fatSat; Different protocol from T1
1035 T4 *Only 1 post scan then acq. parameters changed
1045 T1Alternating laterality acquisitions, 2 minute time gap
1047 T1 *Image position changed during DCE
1053 T2 *Alternating laterality acquisitions, bad pre- acquisition
1053 T4 *Alternating laterality acquisitions
1055 T1 *Alternating laterality acquisitions, 4 minute time gap
1086 T1 *Alternating laterality acquisitions, time gap, different protocol from T4
1091 T1 *Changing acq. parameters during DCE
1095 T2 *Only 1 post scan then acq. parameters changed
1173 T3 *Off protocol timing
1206 T1Bad DCE timing, 20 minute delay
1206 T2Bad DCE timing, 1'29" acquisition time
1224 T3 *Scan position changed during DCE
1230 T3 *Scan position changed during DCE
#128 T1, T22 studies for ineligible patient:  ACRIN ID 128 (no I-SPY ID)
  • Subjects that were included in the primary aim analysis (Level 3)

Level 3: Subset of Level 2b used in primary aim analysis, reported in Hylton et al. (Radiology, 2016) *

This data set is comprised of the patient studies analyzed for RFS outcome and reported in the 2015 Radiology paper on ACRIN 6657 survival results (Hylton et al, Radiology *). Table 5 shows the 45 patients excluded from the level 2a cohort for this analysis. Please see the publication for specific information on exclusions of patients from this group.

Level 3 image data set consists of 586 MRI studies on 162 subjects in the UCSF image database. This is also the study cohort used as the Test Phase data in the QIN BMMR Challenge.

Table 5. 45 subjects excluded from Level 2b set

ID 1027

ID 1040

ID 1045

ID 1046

ID 1048

ID 1054

ID 1063

ID 1067

ID 1079

ID 1084

ID 1103

ID 1110

ID 1120

ID 1137

ID 1139

ID 1152

ID 1157

ID 1159

ID 1160

ID 1167

ID 1171

ID 1176

ID 1177

ID 1180

ID 1182

ID 1185

ID 1187

ID 1189

ID 1192

ID 1194

ID 1203

ID 1206

ID 1210

ID 1212

ID 1214

ID 1215

ID 1219

ID 1221

ID 1222

ID 1228

ID 1234

ID 1235

ID 1237

ID 1238


ineligible:

Case  #: 128

  • Hylton NM, Gatsonis CA, Rosen MA, et al: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Functional Tumor Volume by MR Imaging Predicts Recurrence-free Survival-Results from the ACRIN 6657/CALGB 150007 I-SPY 1 TRIAL. Radiology 279:44-55, 2016.


Citations & Data Usage Policy 

This collection is freely available to browse, download, and use for commercial, scientific and educational purposes as outlined in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.  See TCIA's Data Usage Policies and Restrictions for additional details. Questions may be directed to help@cancerimagingarchive.net.

Please be sure to include the following citations in your work if you use this data set:

David Newitt, Nola Hylton, on behalf of the I-SPY 1 Network and ACRIN 6657 Trial Team. (2016). Multi-center breast DCE-MRI data and segmentations from patients in the I-SPY 1/ACRIN 6657 trials. The Cancer Imaging Archive. http://doi.org/10.7937/K9/TCIA.2016.HdHpgJLK


Hylton NM, Gatsonis CA, Rosen MA, et al: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Functional Tumor Volume by MR Imaging Predicts Recurrence-free Survival-Results from the ACRIN 6657/CALGB 150007 I-SPY 1 TRIAL. Radiology 279:44-55, 2016.


Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, Freymann J, Kirby J, Koppel P, Moore S, Phillips S, Maffitt D, Pringle M, Tarbox L, Prior F. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 26, Number 6, December, 2013, pp 1045-1057. (paper)

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Version 2 (Current): Updated 2016/09/28

Data Type
Download all or Query/Filter

Images (DICOM, 76.2GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects 

(Requires the NBIA Data Retriever.)

DICOM Metadata Digest (CSV)
Clinical and Outcome Data

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects

The ISPY team has provided the following additional options for download. The significance of these subsets are explained on the Detailed Description tab.

 Data set
subjects
All Series
DCE + Derived Only
DCE Only
Clinical and outcome data
Level 0: Complete image data set222

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (76.2 GB)

NANAExcel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects
Level 1: Studies with MRI LD measurements219

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (75 GB)

NANAExcel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for subjects with LD measurements
Level 2a: Studies with SER Volume measurements207

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (63 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (43 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (24 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for subjects with good volumetric DCE
Level 3: Studies used in primary aim analysis162

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (49 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (34 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for all subjects (18 GB)

Excel workbook file with clinical and outcome data for subjects used in ACRIN 6657 Primary Aim analysis

Data publicly released and new "level-specific" download options provided.

Version 1: Updated 2015/06/18

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