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Abstract
Introduction/Background Evaluation of prognostic factors is crucial in patients with endometrial cancer to ensure optimal treatment planning and accurate prognosis assessment. This study introduces an end-to-end MRI-based deep learning (DL) pipeline from tumor and uterus segmentation to deep myometrial invasion (DMI) and cervical stroma invasion (CSI) prediction to assist radiologists in pre-operative workup.
Methodology 178 pre-treatment pelvic sagittal T2-weighted images were obtained from 178 endometrial cancer patients (DMI: 90/178 – 51%, CSI: 31/178 – 17.42%). The dataset was randomly divided into a training (150 patients – 84%) and a test (28 patients – 16%) set. The proposed DL method was trained and validated with 5-fold cross-validation. This end-to-end solution (Figure 1) included a segmentation module based on a two-stage pipeline for efficient uterus segmentation and tumor localization. Tumor features were then extracted, and the prediction module trained using a vector database to offer only optimal and similar candidates for the Siamese network, which was trained in a contrastive manner.
Results The model achieved a test accuracy of 0.79 in predicting DMI and a test balanced accuracy of 0.75 in predicting CSI. In comparison, expert readers’ accuracies were 0.71 and 0.96, respectively. The accuracy rates for uterus and tumor segmentation, measured by the Dice coefficient, were 0.87 and 0.60, respectively.
Conclusion This fully automated approach achieved good-to-excellent accuracy and holds great promise in assisting radiologists with pre-operative evaluations of DMI and CSI. Moreover, it demonstrated a robust capability in accurately segmenting key regions of interest, specifically the uterus and lesions, highlighting the positive impact our solution can bring to healthcare imaging.
Disclosures None.
