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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2018

A benchmark for comparing precision medicine methods in thyroid cancer diagnosis using tissue microarrays.

Ching-Wei Wang, Yu-Ching Lee, Evelyne Calista, Fan Zhou, Hongtu Zhu, Ryohei Suzuki, Daisuke Komura, Shumpei Ishikawa, Shih-Ping Cheng

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ching-Wei WangGraduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yu-Ching LeeNTUST Center of Computer Vision and Medical Imaging, Taipei, Taiwan.
Evelyne CalistaGraduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Fan ZhouDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Hongtu ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Ryohei SuzukiDepartment of Genomic Pathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
Daisuke KomuraDepartment of Genomic Pathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
Shumpei IshikawaDepartment of Genomic Pathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
Shih-Ping ChengDepartment of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology · TWTokyo Medical and Dental University · JPUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USMackay Memorial Hospital · TWThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

Statistical Analysis of Biomedical Imaging Data in Curved SpaceR01MH086633 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI IBRAHIM, JOSEPH G · 2010 to 2018
$2.9M
Genome-wide Identification of Variants Affecting Early Human Brain DevelopmentR01MH092335 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KNICKMEYER, REBECCA · 2011 to 2015
$2.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH086633NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH092335
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivation: The aim of precision medicine is to harness new knowledge and technology to optimize the timing and targeting of interventions for maximal therapeutic benefit. This study explores the possibility of building AI models without precise pixel-level annotation in prediction of the tumor size, extrathyroidal extension, lymph node metastasis, cancer stage and BRAF mutation in thyroid cancer diagnosis, providing the patients' background information, histopathological and immunohistochemical tissue images. Results: A novel framework for objective evaluation of automatic patient diagnosis algorithms has been established under the auspices of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2017- A Grand Challenge for Tissue Microarray Analysis in Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis. Here, we present the datasets, methods and results of the challenge and lay down the principles for future uses of this benchmark. The main contributions of the challenge include the creation of the data repository of tissue microarrays; the creation of the clinical diagnosis classification data repository of thyroid cancer; and the definition of objective quantitative evaluation for comparison and ranking of the algorithms. With this benchmark, three automatic methods for predictions of the five clinical outcomes have been compared, and detailed quantitative evaluation results are presented in this paper. Based on the quantitative evaluation results, we believe automatic patient diagnosis is still a challenging and unsolved problem. Availability and implementation: The datasets and the evaluation software will be made available to the research community, further encouraging future developments in this field. (http://www-o.ntust.edu.tw/cvmi/ISBI2017/). Contact: cweiwang@mail.ntust.edu.tw. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Precision MedicineAlgorithmsBenchmarkingHumansSoftwareThyroid Neoplasms

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PMCPMC5946957
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