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ArticleCancers2024

EXACT-Net: Framework for EHR-Guided Lung Tumor Auto-Segmentation for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Radiotherapy.

Hamed Hooshangnejad, Gaofeng Huang, Katelyn Kelly, Xue Feng, Yi Luo, Rui Zhang, Ziyue Xu, Quan Chen, Kai Ding

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Article in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Hamed HooshangnejadDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Gaofeng HuangCarina Medical, Lexington, KY 40509, USA.
Katelyn KellyDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Xue FengCarina Medical, Lexington, KY 40509, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2181-9889
Yi LuoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Rui ZhangDepartment of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Ziyue XuNVIDIA Corp., AI Infrastructure, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5728-6869
Quan ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA.
Kai DingDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8202-0173

Funding

Spacer Enabled Robust Radiation Therapy (SERRT)R37CA229417 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DING, KAI · 2018 to 2021
$1.5M
National Intitutes of Health R37CA229417NCI NIH HHS R37 CA229417
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesLung cancer is a devastating disease with the highest mortality rate among cancer types. Over 60% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, accounting for 87% of lung cancer diagnoses, require radiation therapy. Rapid treatment initiation significantly increases the patient's survival rate and reduces the mortality rate. Accurate tumor segmentation is a critical step in diagnosing and treating NSCLC. Manual segmentation is time- and labor-consuming and causes delays in treatment initiation. Although many lung nodule detection methods, including deep learning-based models, have been proposed. Most of these methods still have a long-standing problem of high false positives (FPs).

methodsHere, we developed an electronic health record (EHR)-guided lung tumor auto-segmentation called EXACT-Net (EHR-enhanced eXACtitude in Tumor segmentation), where the extracted information from EHRs using a pre-trained large language model (LLM) was used to remove the FPs and keep the TP nodules only.

resultsThe auto-segmentation model was trained on NSCLC patients' computed tomography (CT), and the pre-trained LLM was used with the zero-shot learning approach. Our approach resulted in a 250% boost in successful nodule detection using the data from ten NSCLC patients treated in our institution.

conclusionsWe demonstrated that combining vision-language information in EXACT-Net multi-modal AI framework greatly enhances the performance of vision only models, paving the road to multimodal AI framework for medical image processing.

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large language modelslung cancer radiotherapylung tumor auto-segmentationmulti-modal AI

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PMID39682283
PMCPMC11639975

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