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Simon BD, Merriman KM, Harmon SA, Tetreault J, Yilmaz EC, Blake Z, Merino MJ, An JY, Marko J, Law YM, Gurram S, Wood BJ, Choyke PL, Pinto PA, Turkbey B. Automated Detection and Grading of Extraprostatic Extension of Prostate Cancer at MRI via Cascaded Deep Learning and Random Forest Classification. Acad Radiol 2024:S1076-6332(24)00220-4. [PMID: 38670874 DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2024.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
Abstract
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Extraprostatic extension (EPE) is well established as a significant predictor of prostate cancer aggression and recurrence. Accurate EPE assessment prior to radical prostatectomy can impact surgical approach. We aimed to utilize a deep learning-based AI workflow for automated EPE grading from prostate T2W MRI, ADC map, and High B DWI. MATERIAL AND METHODS An expert genitourinary radiologist conducted prospective clinical assessments of MRI scans for 634 patients and assigned risk for EPE using a grading technique. The training set and held-out independent test set consisted of 507 patients and 127 patients, respectively. Existing deep-learning AI models for prostate organ and lesion segmentation were leveraged to extract area and distance features for random forest classification models. Model performance was evaluated using balanced accuracy, ROC AUCs for each EPE grade, as well as sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy compared to EPE on histopathology. RESULTS A balanced accuracy score of .390 ± 0.078 was achieved using a lesion detection probability threshold of 0.45 and distance features. Using the test set, ROC AUCs for AI-assigned EPE grades 0-3 were 0.70, 0.65, 0.68, and 0.55 respectively. When using EPE≥ 1 as the threshold for positive EPE, the model achieved a sensitivity of 0.67, specificity of 0.73, and accuracy of 0.72 compared to radiologist sensitivity of 0.81, specificity of 0.62, and accuracy of 0.66 using histopathology as the ground truth. CONCLUSION Our AI workflow for assigning imaging-based EPE grades achieves an accuracy for predicting histologic EPE approaching that of physicians. This automated workflow has the potential to enhance physician decision-making for assessing the risk of EPE in patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer due to its consistency and automation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Benjamin D Simon
- Molecular Imaging Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.D.S., K.M.M., S.A.H., E.C.Y., P.L.C., B.T.); Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK (B.D.S.)
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.D.S., K.M.M., S.A.H., E.C.Y., P.L.C., B.T.)
| | - Stephanie A Harmon
- Molecular Imaging Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.D.S., K.M.M., S.A.H., E.C.Y., P.L.C., B.T.)
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.D.S., K.M.M., S.A.H., E.C.Y., P.L.C., B.T.)
| | - Zoë Blake
- Urology Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (Z.B., S.G., P.A.P.)
| | - Maria J Merino
- Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (M.J.M.)
| | - Julie Y An
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, California, USA (J.Y.A.)
| | - Jamie Marko
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (J.M.)
| | - Yan Mee Law
- Department of Radiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore (Y.M.L.)
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- Urology Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (Z.B., S.G., P.A.P.)
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- Center for Interventional Oncology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.J.W.); Department of Radiology, Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.J.W.)
| | - Peter L Choyke
- Molecular Imaging Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.D.S., K.M.M., S.A.H., E.C.Y., P.L.C., B.T.)
| | - Peter A Pinto
- Urology Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (Z.B., S.G., P.A.P.)
| | - Baris Turkbey
- Molecular Imaging Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.D.S., K.M.M., S.A.H., E.C.Y., P.L.C., B.T.).
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