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@ARTICLE{Schrammen:176902,
author = {P. L. Schrammen and N. Ghaffari Laleh and A. Echle and D.
Truhn and V. Schulz and T. J. Brinker$^*$ and H. Brenner$^*$
and J. Chang-Claude$^*$ and E. Alwers$^*$ and A. Brobeil and
M. Kloor and L. R. Heij and D. Jäger and C. Trautwein and
H. I. Grabsch and P. Quirke and N. P. West and M.
Hoffmeister$^*$ and J. N. Kather$^*$},
title = {{W}eakly supervised annotation-free cancer detection and
prediction of genotype in routine histopathology.},
journal = {The journal of pathology},
volume = {256},
number = {1},
issn = {1096-9896},
address = {Bognor Regis [u.a.]},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {DKFZ-2021-02144},
pages = {50-60},
year = {2022},
note = {2022 Jan;256(1):50-60},
abstract = {Deep Learning is a powerful tool in computational
pathology: it can be used for tumor detection and for
predicting genetic alterations based on histopathology
images alone. Conventionally, tumor detection and prediction
of genetic alterations are two separate workflows. Newer
methods have combined them, but require complex, manually
engineered computational pipelines, restricting
reproducibility and robustness. To address these issues, we
present a new method for simultaneous tumor detection and
prediction of genetic alterations: The 'Slide-Level
Assessment Model' (SLAM) uses a single off-the-shelf neural
network to predict molecular alterations directly from
routine pathology slides without any manual annotations,
improving upon previous methods by automatically excluding
normal and non-informative tissue regions. SLAM requires
only standard programming libraries and is conceptually
simpler than previous approaches. We have extensively
validated SLAM for clinically relevant tasks using two large
multicentric cohorts of colorectal cancer patients, DACHS
from Germany and YCR-BCIP from the United Kingdom. We show
that SLAM yields reliable slide-level classification of
tumor presence with an area under the receiver operating
curve (AUROC) of 0.980 (confidence interval 0.975, 0.984; N
= 2297 tumor and N = 1281 normal slides). In addition, SLAM
can detect microsatellite instability (MSI) / mismatch
repair deficiency (dMMR) or microsatellite stability (MSS)
/mismatch repair proficiency (pMMR) with an AUROC of 0.909
(0.888, 0.929; N = 2039 patients) and BRAF mutational status
with an AUROC of 0.821 (0.786, 0.852; N = 2075 patients).
The improvement with respect to previous methods was
validated in a large external testing cohort in which
MSI/dMMR status was detected with an AUROC of 0.900 (0.864,
0.931; N = 805 patients). In addition, SLAM provides
human-interpretable visualization maps, enabling the
analysis of multiplexed network predictions by human
experts. In summary, SLAM is a new simple and powerful
method for computational pathology which could be applied to
multiple disease contexts. This article is protected by
copyright. All rights reserved.},
keywords = {Lynch syndrome (Other) / artificial intelligence (Other) /
colorectal cancer (Other) / computational pathology (Other)
/ deep learning (Other) / digital pathology (Other) /
microsatellite instability (Other)},
cin = {C140 / C070 / C120 / HD01 / C020},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C140-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)C070-20160331 /
I:(DE-He78)C120-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)HD01-20160331 /
I:(DE-He78)C020-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:34561876},
doi = {10.1002/path.5800},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/176902},
}