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Computed tomography-based 3D convolutional neural network deep learning model for predicting micropapillary or solid growth pattern of invasive lung adenocarcinoma

La Radiologia medica
March 21, 2024
Purpose

To investigate the value of a computed tomography (CT)-based deep learning (DL) model to predict the presence of micropapillary or solid (M/S) growth pattern in invasive lung adenocarcinoma (ILADC).

Materials and Methods

From June 2019 to October 2022, 617 patients with ILADC who underwent preoperative chest CT scans in our institution were randomly placed into training and internal validation sets in a 4:1 ratio, and 353 patients with ILADC from another institution were included as an external validation set. Then, a self-paced learning (SPL) 3D Net was used to establish two DL models: model 1 was used to predict the M/S growth pattern in ILADC, and model 2 was used to predict that pattern in ≤ 2-cm-diameter ILADC.

Results

For model 1, the training cohort’s area under the curve (AUC), accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score were 0.924, 0.845, 0.851, 0.842, and 0.843; the internal validation cohort’s were 0.807, 0.744, 0.756, 0.750, and 0.743; and the external validation cohort’s were 0.857, 0.805, 0.804, 0.806, and 0.804, respectively. For model 2, the training cohort’s AUC, accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score were 0.946, 0.858, 0.881,0.844, and 0.851; the internal validation cohort’s were 0.869, 0.809, 0.786, 0.794, and 0.790; and the external validation cohort’s were 0.831, 0.792, 0.789, 0.790, and 0.790, respectively. The SPL 3D Net model performed better than the ResNet34, ResNet50, ResNeXt50, and DenseNet121 models.

Conclusion

The CT-based DL model performed well as a noninvasive screening tool capable of reliably detecting and distinguishing the subtypes of ILADC, even in small-sized tumors.

Authors
Jiwen Huo, Xuhong Min, Tianyou Luo, Fajin Lv, Yibo Feng, Qianrui Fan, Dawei Wang, Dongchun Ma & Qi Li
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