Multi-task network for automated analysis of high-resolution endomicroscopy images to detect cervical precancer and cancer
COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL IMAGING AND GRAPHICS(2022)
Abstract
Cervical cancer is a public health emergency in low-and middle-income countries where resource limitations hamper standard-of-care prevention strategies. The high-resolution endomicroscope (HRME) is a low-cost, point of-care device with which care providers can image the nuclear morphology of cervical lesions. Here, we propose a deep learning framework to diagnose cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or more severe from HRME images. The proposed multi-task convolutional neural network uses nuclear segmentation to learn a diagnostically relevant representation. Nuclear segmentation was trained via proxy labels to circumvent the need for expensive, manually annotated nuclear masks. A dataset of images from over 1600 patients was used to train, validate, and test our algorithm; data from 20% of patients were reserved for testing. An external evaluation set with images from 508 patients was used to further validate our findings. The proposed method consistently outperformed other state-of-the art architectures achieving a test per patient area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC) of 0.87. Performance was comparable to expert colposcopy with a test sensitivity and specificity of 0.94 (p = 0.3) and 0.58 (p = 1.0), respectively. Patients with recurrent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are at a higher risk of developing cervical cancer. Thus, we sought to incorporate HPV DNA test results as a feature to inform prediction. We found that incorporating patient HPV status improved test specificity to 0.71 at a sensitivity of 0.94.
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Key words
Endomicroscopy,Cervical precancer,Multi-task learning,Point-of-care
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