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@ARTICLE{Loeffler:168506,
author = {C. M. L. Loeffler and N. Ortiz Bruechle and M. Jung and L.
Seillier and M. Rose and N. G. Laleh and R. Knuechel and T.
J. Brinker$^*$ and C. Trautwein and N. T. Gaisa and J. N.
Kather},
title = {{A}rtificial {I}ntelligence-based {D}etection of {FGFR}3
{M}utational {S}tatus {D}irectly from {R}outine {H}istology
in {B}ladder {C}ancer: {A} {P}ossible {P}reselection for
{M}olecular {T}esting?},
journal = {European urology focus},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
issn = {2405-4569},
address = {Amsterdam},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DKFZ-2021-00938},
pages = {472-479},
year = {2022},
note = {2022 Mar;8(2):472-479},
abstract = {Fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitor
treatment has become the first clinically approved targeted
therapy in bladder cancer. However, it requires previous
molecular testing of each patient, which is costly and not
ubiquitously available.To determine whether an artificial
intelligence system is able to predict mutations of the
FGFR3 gene directly from routine histology slides of bladder
cancer.We trained a deep learning network to detect FGFR3
mutations on digitized slides of muscle-invasive bladder
cancers stained with hematoxylin and eosin from the Cancer
Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort (n = 327) and validated the
algorithm on the 'Aachen' cohort (n = 182; n = 121 pT2-4, n
= 34 stroma-invasive pT1, and n = 27 noninvasive pTa
tumors).The primary endpoint was the area under the receiver
operating curve (AUROC) for mutation detection. Performance
of the deep learning system was compared with visual scoring
by an uropathologist.In the TCGA cohort, FGFR3 mutations
were detected with an AUROC of 0.701 (p < 0.0001). In the
Aachen cohort, FGFR3 mutants were found with an AUROC of
0.725 (p < 0.0001). When trained on TCGA, the network
generalized to the Aachen cohort, and detected FGFR3 mutants
with an AUROC of 0.625 (p = 0.0112). A subgroup analysis and
histological evaluation found highest accuracy in papillary
growth, luminal gene expression subtypes, females, and
American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage II tumors.
In a head-to-head comparison, the deep learning system
outperformed the uropathologist in detecting FGFR3
mutants.Our computer-based artificial intelligence system
was able to detect genetic alterations of the FGFR3 gene of
bladder cancer patients directly from histological slides.
In the future, this system could be used to preselect
patients for further molecular testing. However, analyses of
larger, multicenter, muscle-invasive bladder cancer cohorts
are now needed in order to validate and extend our
findings.In this report, a computer-based artificial
intelligence (AI) system was applied to histological slides
to predict genetic alterations of the FGFR3 gene in bladder
cancer. We found that the AI system was able to find the
alteration with high accuracy. In the future, this system
could be used to preselect patients for further molecular
testing.},
keywords = {Artificial intelligence (Other) / Bladder cancer (Other) /
Deep learning (Other) / FGFR3 mutations (Other) / Molecular
testing for fibroblast growth factor receptor therapy
(Other)},
cin = {C140},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C140-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:33895087},
doi = {10.1016/j.euf.2021.04.007},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/168506},
}