Journal Article DKFZ-2023-01529

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Weakly Supervised MRI Slice-Level Deep Learning Classification of Prostate Cancer Approximates Full Voxel- and Slice-Level Annotation: Effect of Increasing Training Set Size.

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2024
Wiley-Liss New York, NY

Journal of magnetic resonance imaging 59(4), 1409-1422 () [10.1002/jmri.28891]
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Abstract: Weakly supervised learning promises reduced annotation effort while maintaining performance.To compare weakly supervised training with full slice-wise annotated training of a deep convolutional classification network (CNN) for prostate cancer (PC).Retrospective.One thousand four hundred eighty-nine consecutive institutional prostate MRI examinations from men with suspicion for PC (65 ± 8 years) between January 2015 and November 2020 were split into training (N = 794, enriched with 204 PROSTATEx examinations) and test set (N = 695).1.5 and 3T, T2-weighted turbo-spin-echo and diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging.Histopathological ground truth was provided by targeted and extended systematic biopsy. Reference training was performed using slice-level annotation (SLA) and compared to iterative training utilizing patient-level annotations (PLAs) with supervised feedback of CNN estimates into the next training iteration at three incremental training set sizes (N = 200, 500, 998). Model performance was assessed by comparing specificity at fixed sensitivity of 0.97 [254/262] emulating PI-RADS ≥ 3, and 0.88-0.90 [231-236/262] emulating PI-RADS ≥ 4 decisions.Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and area under the curve (AUC) was compared using DeLong and Obuchowski test. Sensitivity and specificity were compared using McNemar test. Statistical significance threshold was P = 0.05.Test set (N = 695) ROC-AUC performance of SLA (trained with 200/500/998 exams) was 0.75/0.80/0.83, respectively. PLA achieved lower ROC-AUC of 0.64/0.72/0.78. Both increased performance significantly with increasing training set size. ROC-AUC for SLA at 500 exams was comparable to PLA at 998 exams (P = 0.28). ROC-AUC was significantly different between SLA and PLA at same training set sizes, however the ROC-AUC difference decreased significantly from 200 to 998 training exams. Emulating PI-RADS ≥ 3 decisions, difference between PLA specificity of 0.12 [51/433] and SLA specificity of 0.13 [55/433] became undetectable (P = 1.0) at 998 exams. Emulating PI-RADS ≥ 4 decisions, at 998 exams, SLA specificity of 0.51 [221/433] remained higher than PLA specificity at 0.39 [170/433]. However, PLA specificity at 998 exams became comparable to SLA specificity of 0.37 [159/433] at 200 exams (P = 0.70).Weakly supervised training of a classification CNN using patient-level-only annotation had lower performance compared to training with slice-wise annotations, but improved significantly faster with additional training data.3 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.

Keyword(s): MRI ; PI-RADS ; deep learning ; prostate cancer ; weakly supervised training

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Note: #EA:E010#LA:E010# / 2024 Apr;59(4):1409-1422

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  1. E010 Radiologie (E010)
  2. NWG KKE Multiparametrische Methoden zur Früherkennung des Prostatakarzinoms (E250)
  3. C060 Biostatistik (C060)
  4. DKTK HD zentral (HD01)
  5. E230 Medizinische Bildverarbeitung (E230)
Research Program(s):
  1. 315 - Bildgebung und Radioonkologie (POF4-315) (POF4-315)

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