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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2023

MEAI: an artificial intelligence platform for predicting distant and lymph node metastases directly from primary breast cancer.

Jiansong Fan, Lei Zhang, Tianxu Lv, Yuan Liu, Heng Sun, Kai Miao, Chunjuan Jiang, Lihua Li, Xiang Pan

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Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Jiansong FanSchool of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Lei ZhangDepartment of Vascular Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.
Tianxu LvSchool of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Yuan LiuSchool of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Heng SunCancer Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.
Kai MiaoMOE Frontier Science Centre for Precision Oncology, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.
Chunjuan JiangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, PET Image Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Lihua LiInstitute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Xiang PanSchool of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. xiangpan@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Jiangnan University · CNUniversity of Macau · MOAffiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University · CNCentral South University · CNHangzhou Dianzi University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeBreast cancer patients typically have decent prognoses, with a 5-year survival rate of more than 90%, but when the disease metastases to lymph node or distant, the prognosis drastically declines. Therefore, it is essential for future treatment and patient survival to quickly and accurately identify tumor metastasis in patients. An artificial intelligence system was developed to recognize lymph node and distant tumor metastases on whole-slide images (WSIs) of primary breast cancer.

methodsIn this study, a total of 832 WSIs from 520 patients without tumor metastases and 312 patients with breast cancer metastases (including lymph node, bone, lung, liver, and other) were gathered. Based on the WSIs were randomly divided into the training and testing cohorts, a brand-new artificial intelligence system called MEAI was built to identify lymph node and distant metastases in primary breast cancer.

resultsThe final AI system attained an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.934 in a test set of 187 patients. In addition, the potential for AI system to increase the precision, consistency, and effectiveness of tumor metastasis detection in patients with breast cancer was highlighted by the AI's achievement of an AUROC higher than the average of six board-certified pathologists (AUROC 0.811) in a retrospective pathologist evaluation.

conclusionThe proposed MEAI system can provide a non-invasive approach to assess the metastatic probability of patients with primary breast cancer.

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Breast NeoplasmsArtificial IntelligenceFemaleHumansLymphatic MetastasisLymph NodesRadiopharmaceuticalsRetrospective StudiesRadiopharmaceuticalsAncillary diagnosisArtificial intelligenceDigital pathologyLymph node and distant metastasisPrimary breast cancer

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PMID37199837
PMCPMC11796647
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