Wentao Zhang1, Jian Peng2, Shan Zhao1, Wenli Wu1, Junjun Yang3, Junyong Ye3, Shengsheng Xu4. 1. Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China. 2. The Center for Clinical Molecular Medical Detection, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China. 3. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology, The Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China. 4. Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China. xuss@cqmu.edu.cn.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate the application of deep learning combined with traditional radiomics methods for classifying enlarged cervical lymph nodes. METHODS: The clinical and computed tomography (CT) imaging data of 276 patients with enlarged cervical lymph nodes (150 with lymph-node metastasis, 65 with lymphoma, and 61 with benign lymphadenopathy) who were treated at the hospital from January 2015 to January 2021 were retrospectively analysed. The patients were randomly divided into a training group and a test group at a ratio of 8:2. The radiomics features were extracted using one-by-one convolution and neural network activation, filtered with the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) model, and used to construct a discrimination model with PyTorch. Then, the performance of the model was compared with the radiologists' diagnostic performance. The neural network model was evaluated using the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve (AUC), and the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were analysed. RESULTS: A total of 102 features, comprising five traditional radiomic features and 97 deep learning features, were selected with LASSO and used to construct a discrimination model, which achieved a total accuracy of 87.50%. The AUC value, specificity, and sensitivity were, respectively, 0.92, 92.30%, and 90.00% for metastatic lymph nodes, 0.87, 95.45%, and 83.33% for benign lymphadenopathy, and 0.88, 90.47%, and 85.71% for lymphoma. The accuracies of the radiologists' diagnoses were 62.68% and 62.68%. The diagnostic performance of the model was significantly different from that of the radiologists (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: CT-based deep learning combined with the traditional radiomics methods has a high diagnostic value for the classification of cervical enlarged lymph nodes.
PURPOSE: To investigate the application of deep learning combined with traditional radiomics methods for classifying enlarged cervical lymph nodes. METHODS: The clinical and computed tomography (CT) imaging data of 276 patients with enlarged cervical lymph nodes (150 with lymph-node metastasis, 65 with lymphoma, and 61 with benign lymphadenopathy) who were treated at the hospital from January 2015 to January 2021 were retrospectively analysed. The patients were randomly divided into a training group and a test group at a ratio of 8:2. The radiomics features were extracted using one-by-one convolution and neural network activation, filtered with the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) model, and used to construct a discrimination model with PyTorch. Then, the performance of the model was compared with the radiologists' diagnostic performance. The neural network model was evaluated using the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve (AUC), and the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were analysed. RESULTS: A total of 102 features, comprising five traditional radiomic features and 97 deep learning features, were selected with LASSO and used to construct a discrimination model, which achieved a total accuracy of 87.50%. The AUC value, specificity, and sensitivity were, respectively, 0.92, 92.30%, and 90.00% for metastatic lymph nodes, 0.87, 95.45%, and 83.33% for benign lymphadenopathy, and 0.88, 90.47%, and 85.71% for lymphoma. The accuracies of the radiologists' diagnoses were 62.68% and 62.68%. The diagnostic performance of the model was significantly different from that of the radiologists (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: CT-based deep learning combined with the traditional radiomics methods has a high diagnostic value for the classification of cervical enlarged lymph nodes.
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