| Literature DB >> 32622359 |
Liron Pantanowitz1,2, Douglas Hartman3, Yan Qi4, Eun Yoon Cho5, Beomseok Suh6, Kyunghyun Paeng6, Rajiv Dhir3, Pamela Michelow7, Scott Hazelhurst8, Sang Yong Song5, Soo Youn Cho5.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The mitotic count in breast carcinoma is an important prognostic marker. Unfortunately substantial inter- and intra-laboratory variation exists when pathologists manually count mitotic figures. Artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with whole slide imaging offers a potential solution to this problem. The aim of this study was to accordingly critique an AI tool developed to quantify mitotic figures in whole slide images of invasive breast ductal carcinoma.Entities:
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Breast; Carcinoma; Counting; Digital pathology; Informatics; Mitosis; Tumor grade; Whole slide imaging
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32622359 PMCID: PMC7335442 DOI: 10.1186/s13000-020-00995-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diagn Pathol ISSN: 1746-1596 Impact factor: 2.644
Fig. 1Flow chart of the methodology and datasets employed in developing and validating an AI-based tool to quantify mitoses in breast carcinoma
Profile of invasive ductal carcinoma cases enrolled in the study
| Reported breast carcinoma parameters | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Mitosis Score | 1 | 21.4% |
| 2 | 31.4% | |
| 3 | 47.1% | |
| Nottingham Grade | 1 | 7.9% |
| 2 | 46.4% | |
| 3 | 45.7% | |
| ER | Not available | 5.0% |
| Negative | 25.7% | |
| Positive | 69.3% | |
| PR | Not available | 5.0% |
| Negative | 32.1% | |
| Positive | 62.9% | |
| HER2/neu (IHC status) | Not available | 5.0% |
| Negative | 59.3% | |
| Equivocal | 9.3% | |
| Weakly positive | 1.4% | |
| Positive | 25.0% | |
| HER2/neu (FISH status) | Not available | 89.3% |
| Negative | 10.0% | |
| Positive | 0.7% | |
ER estrogen receptor, FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization, HER2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, IHC immunohistochemistry, PR progesterone receptor
Fig. 2Web-based tool showing a HPF of breast carcinoma. a Screenshot of the web-based tool used for the observer performance test without AI. The small green dots indicate mitotic figures marked by the reader. b Screenshot of the web-based tool used for the observer performance test with AI. The green boxes indicate mitotic figures detected by AI
Fig. 3Algorithm performance for mitotic figure detection in the analytical validation dataset
Fig. 4Accuracy and precision with and without AI support per user experience level
Accuracy by experience level
| User Experience Level | No AI Support | With AI Support | Improved Accuracy with AI support? | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PGY-2 ( | 36.8% | 51.6% | Yes | 89.30 (1) | |
| PGY-3 ( | 47.5% | 58.4% | Yes | 53.12 (1) | |
| PGY-4 ( | 38.6% | 52.9% | Yes | 87.13 (1) | |
| Fellow ( | 50.1% | 57.1% | Yes | 29.82 (1) | |
| Faculty ( | 43.1% | 55.2% | Yes | 89.84 (1) | |
PGY postgraduate year
True positive (TP), false positive (FP), and false negative (FN) values for mitotic cell detection
| User Experience Level | No AI support | With AI support | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TP | FP | FN | TP | FP | FN | |
| PGY-2 ( | 749 | 509 | 779 | 1003 | 414 | 525 |
| PGY-3 ( | 1135 | 861 | 393 | 1208 | 539 | 320 |
| PGY-4 ( | 793 | 525 | 735 | 1149 | 642 | 379 |
| Fellow ( | 1524 | 751 | 768 | 1659 | 611 | 633 |
| Faculty ( | 1395 | 941 | 897 | 1647 | 693 | 645 |
PGY postgraduate year
Fig. 5Median number of seconds spent with and without AI support per user experience level
Median time to count mitoses by study participant experience level
| User Experience Level | Median # of seconds | AI or no AI faster? | Z | r | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No AI support | With AI support | |||||
| PGY-2 ( | 38.00 | 26.00 | AI | −8.799 | .37 | |
| PGY-3 ( | 39.00 | 30.00 | AI | −3.290 | .14 | |
| PGY-4 ( | 22.00 | 29.50 | No AI | −3.058 | .13 | |
| Fellow ( | 44.00 | 16.00 | AI | −16.730 | .58 | |
| Faculty ( | 33.00 | 30.00 | AI | −2.584 | .09 | |
r effect size, PGY postgraduate year