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Establishment and application of an artificial intelligence diagnosis system for pancreatic cancer with a faster region-based convolutional neural network.

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BACKGROUND:Early diagnosis and accurate staging are important to improve the cure rate and prognosis for pancreatic cancer. This study was performed to develop an automatic and accurate imaging processing technique system, allowing this system to read computed tomography (CT) images correctly and make diagnosis of pancreatic cancer faster. METHODS:The establishment of the artificial intelligence (AI) system for pancreatic cancer diagnosis based on sequential contrast-enhanced CT images were composed of two processes: training and verification. During training process, our study used all 4385 CT images from 238 pancreatic cancer patients in the database as the training data set. Additionally, we used VGG16, which was pre-trained in ImageNet and contained 13 convolutional layers and three fully connected layers, to initialize the feature extraction network. In the verification experiment, we used sequential clinical CT images from 238 pancreatic cancer patients as our experimental data and input these data into the faster region-based convolution network (Faster R-CNN) model that had completed training. Totally, 1699 images from 100 pancreatic cancer patients were included for clinical verification. RESULTS:A total of 338 patients with pancreatic cancer were included in the study. The clinical characteristics (sex, age, tumor location, differentiation grade, and tumor-node-metastasis stage) between the two training and verification groups were insignificant. The mean average precision was 0.7664, indicating a good training effect of the Faster R-CNN. Sequential contrast-enhanced CT images of 100 pancreatic cancer patients were used for clinical verification. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve calculated according to the trapezoidal rule was 0.9632. It took approximately 0.2 s for the Faster R-CNN AI to automatically process one CT image, which is much faster than the time required for diagnosis by an imaging specialist. CONCLUSIONS:Faster R-CNN AI is an effective and objective method with high accuracy for the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. TRIAL REGISTRATION:ChiCTR1800017542; http://www.chictr.org.cn.

journal_name

Chin Med J (Engl)

journal_title

Chinese medical journal

authors

Liu SL,Li S,Guo YT,Zhou YP,Zhang ZD,Li S,Lu Y

doi

10.1097/CM9.0000000000000544

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-12-05 00:00:00

pages

2795-2803

issue

eissn

0366-6999

issn

2542-5641

pii

00029330-201912050-00005

journal_volume

132

pub_type

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Establishment and application of an artificial intelligence diagnosis system for pancreatic cancer with a faster region-based convolutional neural network.