Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-23-2020
Abstract
Purpose: While mammography has excellent sensitivity for the detection of breast lesions, its specificity is limited. Adjunct screening with ultrasound may partially alleviate this issue, but also increases false positives, resulting in unnecessary biopsies. This study investigated the use of Google AutoML Vision (Mountain View, CA), a commercially available machine learning service, to both identify and characterize indeterminate breast lesions on ultrasound.
Methods: B-mode images from 253 independent cases of indeterminate breast lesions scheduled for core biopsy were used for model creation and validation. The performances of two sub-models from AutoML Vision, the image classification model and object detection model were evaluated, while also investigating training strategies to enhance model performances. Pathology from the patient’s biopsy were used as a reference standard.
Results: The image classification models trained under different conditions demonstrated areas under the precision recall curve (AUC) ranging from 0.85 to 0.96 during internal validation. Once deployed, the model with highest internal performance demonstrated a sensitivity of 100% (95% confidence interval (CI) of 73.5-100%), specificity of 83.3% (CI=51.6-97.9%), positive predictive value (PPV) of 85.7% (CI=62.9-95.5%), and negative predictive value (NPV) of 100% (CI non-evaluable) in an independent dataset. The object detection model demonstrated lower performance internally during development (AUC=0.67) and during prediction in the independent dataset (sensitivity=75.0% (CI=42.8-94.5), specificity=80.0% (CI=51.9-95.7), PPV=75.0% (CI=50.8-90.0), NPV=80.0% (CI=59.3-91.7%)), but was able to demonstrate the location of the lesion within the image.
Conclusions: Two models appear to be useful tools for identifying and classifying suspicious areas on B-mode images of indeterminate breast lesions.
Recommended Citation
Wang, Shuo; Niu, Sihua; Qu, Enze; Forsberg, Flemming; Wilkes, Annina; Sevrukov, Alexander; Nam, Kibo; Mattrey, Robert F.; Ojeda-Fournier, Haydee; and Eisenbrey, John R., "Characterization of indeterminate breast lesions on B-mode ultrasound using automated machine learning models" (2020). Department of Radiology Faculty Papers. Paper 94.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/radiologyfp/94
Language
English
Comments
Shuo Wang, Sihua Niu, Enze Qu, Flemming Forsberg, Annina Wilkes, Alexander Sevrukov, Kibo Nam, Robert F. Mattrey, Haydee Ojeda-Fournier, and John R. Eisenbrey "Characterization of indeterminate breast lesions on B-mode ultrasound using automated machine learning models," Journal of Medical Imaging 7(5), 057002 (23 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.7.5.057002
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