Abstract: Breast cancer is highly heterogeneous,and its heterogeneity is the main reason for high misdiagnosis rate,poor treatment response and poor prognosis.Texture analysis evaluates the heterogeneity of tumor body and its surrounding stroma by extracting texture features of different sequence images,and combines the results with clinical,histopathological,and genomic information,so that it can make a noninvasive prospective evaluation and prediction of breast lesions.With the rapid development of medical imaging,texture analysis technology continues to improve,which can more accurately judge the nature and prognosis of breast lesions,and provide more information for clinical precise treatment.This review focuses on the application of texture analysis in differentiating benign and malignant breast tumors,predicting molecular subtypes of breast cancer,and evaluating the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Key words: Magnetic resonance imaging, Texture analysis, Breast cancer, Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, Molecular subtype