Deep Learning-Enabled Diagnosis of Liver Adenocarcinoma.

Artificial Intelligence Biliary Tract Cancer Digital Pathology Intestinal Cancer

Journal

Gastroenterology
ISSN: 1528-0012
Titre abrégé: Gastroenterology
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0374630

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 26 01 2023
revised: 18 07 2023
accepted: 20 07 2023
pubmed: 11 8 2023
medline: 11 8 2023
entrez: 10 8 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Diagnosis of adenocarcinoma in the liver is a frequent scenario in routine pathology and has a critical impact on clinical decision making. However, rendering a correct diagnosis can be challenging, and often requires the integration of clinical, radiologic, and immunohistochemical information. We present a deep learning model (HEPNET) to distinguish intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma from colorectal liver metastasis, as the most frequent primary and secondary forms of liver adenocarcinoma, with clinical grade accuracy using H&E-stained whole-slide images. HEPNET was trained on 714,589 image tiles from 456 patients who were randomly selected in a stratified manner from a pool of 571 patients who underwent surgical resection or biopsy at Heidelberg University Hospital. Model performance was evaluated on a hold-out internal test set comprising 115 patients and externally validated on 159 patients recruited at Mainz University Hospital. On the hold-out internal test set, HEPNET achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.994 (95% CI, 0.989-1.000) and an accuracy of 96.522% (95% CI, 94.521%-98.694%) at the patient level. Validation on the external test set yielded an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.997 (95% CI, 0.995-1.000), corresponding to an accuracy of 98.113% (95% CI, 96.907%-100.000%). HEPNET surpassed the performance of 6 pathology experts with different levels of experience in a reader study of 50 patients (P = .0005), boosted the performance of resident pathologists to the level of senior pathologists, and reduced potential downstream analyses. We provided a ready-to-use tool with clinical grade performance that may facilitate routine pathology by rendering a definitive diagnosis and guiding ancillary testing. The incorporation of HEPNET into pathology laboratories may optimize the diagnostic workflow, complemented by test-related labor and cost savings.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND & AIMS OBJECTIVE
Diagnosis of adenocarcinoma in the liver is a frequent scenario in routine pathology and has a critical impact on clinical decision making. However, rendering a correct diagnosis can be challenging, and often requires the integration of clinical, radiologic, and immunohistochemical information. We present a deep learning model (HEPNET) to distinguish intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma from colorectal liver metastasis, as the most frequent primary and secondary forms of liver adenocarcinoma, with clinical grade accuracy using H&E-stained whole-slide images.
METHODS METHODS
HEPNET was trained on 714,589 image tiles from 456 patients who were randomly selected in a stratified manner from a pool of 571 patients who underwent surgical resection or biopsy at Heidelberg University Hospital. Model performance was evaluated on a hold-out internal test set comprising 115 patients and externally validated on 159 patients recruited at Mainz University Hospital.
RESULTS RESULTS
On the hold-out internal test set, HEPNET achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.994 (95% CI, 0.989-1.000) and an accuracy of 96.522% (95% CI, 94.521%-98.694%) at the patient level. Validation on the external test set yielded an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.997 (95% CI, 0.995-1.000), corresponding to an accuracy of 98.113% (95% CI, 96.907%-100.000%). HEPNET surpassed the performance of 6 pathology experts with different levels of experience in a reader study of 50 patients (P = .0005), boosted the performance of resident pathologists to the level of senior pathologists, and reduced potential downstream analyses.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
We provided a ready-to-use tool with clinical grade performance that may facilitate routine pathology by rendering a definitive diagnosis and guiding ancillary testing. The incorporation of HEPNET into pathology laboratories may optimize the diagnostic workflow, complemented by test-related labor and cost savings.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37562657
pii: S0016-5085(23)04883-7
doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2023.07.026
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1262-1275

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 AGA Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Thomas Albrecht (T)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Liver Cancer Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: Thomas.Albrecht@med.uni-heidelberg.de.

Annik Rossberg (A)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Jana Dorothea Albrecht (JD)

Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

Jan Peter Nicolay (JP)

Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

Beate Katharina Straub (BK)

Institute of Pathology, University Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

Tiemo Sven Gerber (TS)

Institute of Pathology, University Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

Michael Albrecht (M)

European Center for Angioscience, Medical Faculty of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

Fritz Brinkmann (F)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Alphonse Charbel (A)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Constantin Schwab (C)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Johannes Schreck (J)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Alexander Brobeil (A)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Christa Flechtenmacher (C)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Moritz von Winterfeld (M)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Bruno Christian Köhler (BC)

Liver Cancer Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Christoph Springfeld (C)

Liver Cancer Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Arianeb Mehrabi (A)

Liver Cancer Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Stephan Singer (S)

Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.

Monika Nadja Vogel (MN)

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Olaf Neumann (O)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Albrecht Stenzinger (A)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Peter Schirmacher (P)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Liver Cancer Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Cleo-Aron Weis (CA)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Stephanie Roessler (S)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Liver Cancer Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Jakob Nikolas Kather (JN)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Benjamin Goeppert (B)

Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, RKH Hospital Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany; Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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