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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

Identification of Early Esophageal Cancer by Semantic Segmentation.

Yu-Jen Fang, Arvind Mukundan, Yu-Ming Tsao, Chien-Wei Huang, Hsiang-Chen Wang

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Yu-Jen FangDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, No. 579, Sec. 2, Yunlin Rd., Dou-Liu 64041, Taiwan.
Arvind MukundanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High Tech Innovations (AIM-HI), Center for Innovative Research on Aging Society (CIRAS), National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Rd., Min Hsiung, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-7741-3722
Yu-Ming TsaoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High Tech Innovations (AIM-HI), Center for Innovative Research on Aging Society (CIRAS), National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Rd., Min Hsiung, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan.
Chien-Wei HuangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, 2, Zhongzheng 1st. Rd., Lingya Dist., Kaohsiung 80284, Taiwan.
Hsiang-Chen WangDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High Tech Innovations (AIM-HI), Center for Innovative Research on Aging Society (CIRAS), National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Rd., Min Hsiung, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-4107-2062

Funding

Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital 111-010Ministry of Science and Technology MOST 109-2622-E-194-007National Chung Cheng University-National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch Joint Re-search Program CCU-NTUHYB-2022-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early detection of esophageal cancer has always been difficult, thereby reducing the overall five-year survival rate of patients. In this study, semantic segmentation was used to predict and label esophageal cancer in its early stages. U-Net was used as the basic artificial neural network along with Resnet to extract feature maps that will classify and predict the location of esophageal cancer. A total of 75 white-light images (WLI) and 90 narrow-band images (NBI) were used. These images were classified into three categories: normal, dysplasia, and squamous cell carcinoma. After labeling, the data were divided into a training set, verification set, and test set. The training set was approved by the encoder-decoder model to train the prediction model. Research results show that the average time of 111 ms is used to predict each image in the test set, and the evaluation method is calculated in pixel units. Sensitivity is measured based on the severity of the cancer. In addition, NBI has higher accuracy of 84.724% when compared with the 82.377% accuracy rate of WLI, thereby making it a suitable method to detect esophageal cancer using the algorithm developed in this study.

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encoder–decoder modelesophageal cancernarrowband imagingResNet150V2semantic segmentationsmall dataU-Netwhite light imaging

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PMID35893299
PMCPMC9331549

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