Using deep convolutional neural networks for enhanced ultrasonographic image diagnosis of differentiated thyroid cancer

Wai Kin Chan, Jui Hung Sun, Miaw Jene Liou, Yan Rong Li, Wei Yu Chou, Feng Hsuan Liu, Szu Tah Chen, Syu Jyun Peng

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摘要

Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) from follicular epithelial cells is the most common form of thyroid cancer. Beyond the common papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), there are a number of rare but difficult-to-diagnose pathological classifications, such as follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). We employed deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to facilitate the clinical diagnosis of differentiated thyroid cancers. An image dataset with thyroid ultrasound images of 421 DTCs and 391 benign patients was collected. Three CNNs (InceptionV3, ResNet101, and VGG19) were retrained and tested after undergoing transfer learning to classify malignant and benign thyroid tumors. The enrolled cases were classified as PTC, FTC, follicular variant of PTC (FVPTC), Hürthle cell carcinoma (HCC), or benign. The accuracy of the CNNs was as follows: InceptionV3 (76.5%), ResNet101 (77.6%), and VGG19 (76.1%). The sensitivity was as follows: InceptionV3 (83.7%), ResNet101 (72.5%), and VGG19 (66.2%). The specificity was as follows: InceptionV3 (83.7%), ResNet101 (81.4%), and VGG19 (76.9%). The area under the curve was as follows: Incep-tionV3 (0.82), ResNet101 (0.83), and VGG19 (0.83). A comparison between performance of physicians and CNNs was assessed and showed significantly better outcomes in the latter. Our results demonstrate that retrained deep CNNs can enhance diagnostic accuracy in most DTCs, including follicular cancers.
原文英語
文章編號1771
期刊Biomedicines
9
發行號12
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 12月 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 醫藥(雜項)
  • 生物化學、遺傳與分子生物學 (全部)

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