Sweet-spot training for early esophageal cancer detection

Fons van der Sommen; Svitlana Zinger; Erik J. Schoon; Peter H. N. de With

doi:10.1117/12.2208114

24 March 2016 Sweet-spot training for early esophageal cancer detection

Fons van der Sommen, Svitlana Zinger, Erik J. Schoon, Peter H. N. de With

Proceedings Volume 9785, Medical Imaging 2016: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 97851B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2208114
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Over the past decade, the imaging tools for endoscopists have improved drastically. This has enabled physicians to visually inspect the intestinal tissue for early signs of malignant lesions. Besides this, recent studies show the feasibility of supportive image analysis for endoscopists, but the analysis problem is typically approached as a segmentation task where binary ground truth is employed. In this study, we show that the detection of early cancerous tissue in the gastrointestinal tract cannot be approached as a binary segmentation problem and it is crucial and clinically relevant to involve multiple experts for annotating early lesions. By employing the so-called sweet spot for training purposes as a metric, a much better detection performance can be achieved. Furthermore, a multi-expert-based ground truth, i.e. a golden standard, enables an improved validation of the resulting delineations. For this purpose, besides the sweet spot we also propose another novel metric, the Jaccard Golden Standard (JIGS) that can handle multiple ground-truth annotations. Our experiments involving these new metrics and based on the golden standard show that the performance of a detection algorithm of early neoplastic lesions in Barrett's esophagus can be increased significantly, demonstrating a 10 percent point increase in the resulting F1 detection score.

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Fons van der Sommen, Svitlana Zinger, Erik J. Schoon, and Peter H. N. de With "Sweet-spot training for early esophageal cancer detection", Proc. SPIE 9785, Medical Imaging 2016: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 97851B (24 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2208114

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