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PURPOSE:To determine the diagnostic efficacy of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to identify cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade 2 or higher by computer-aided diagnosis (CADx). METHODS:OCT has been investigated as a screening/diagnostic tool in the management of preinvasive and early invasive cancers of the uterine cervix. In this study, an automated algorithm was developed to extract OCT image features and identify CIN 2 or higher. First, the cervical epithelium was detected by a combined watershed and active contour method. Second, four features were calculated: The thickness of the epithelium and its standard deviation and the contrast between the epithelium and the stroma and its standard deviation. Finally, linear discriminant analysis was applied to classify images into two categories: Normal/inflammation/CIN 1 and CIN 2/CIN 3. The algorithm was applied to 152 images (74 patients) obtained from an international study. RESULTS:The numbers of normal/inflammatory/CIN 1/CIN 2/CIN 3 images are 74, 29, 14, 24, and 11, respectively. Tenfold cross-validation predicted the algorithm achieved a sensitivity of 51% (95% CI: 36%-67%) and a specificity of 92% (95% CI: 86%-96%) with an empirical two-category prior probability estimated from the data set. Receiver operating characteristic analysis yielded an area under the curve of 0.86. CONCLUSIONS:The diagnostic efficacy of CADx in OCT imaging to differentiate high-grade CIN from normal/low grade CIN is demonstrated. The high specificity of OCT with CADx suggests further investigation as an effective secondary screening tool when combined with a highly sensitive primary screening tool.
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Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Kang W,Qi X,Tresser NJ,Kareta M,Belinson JL,Rollins AMdoi
10.1118/1.3523098subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-01-01 00:00:00pages
107-13issue
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0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
38pub_type
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