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ArticleBMC medicine2025

Artificial intelligence-assisted endoscopic diagnosis system for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection: a multicenter study.

Yue Hu, Jianwei Xu, Liang Huang, Zhilin Zheng, Jin Zhao, Tanzhou Chen, Jiang Liu, Fangfang Zhang, Xiaoyun Ding, Jie Pan and 4 more

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Yue Hu *Department of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Jianwei Xu *Alibaba Group, DAMO Academy, No.960-1 West Wenyi Road, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Liang Huang *Department of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Zhilin ZhengAlibaba Group, DAMO Academy, No.960-1 West Wenyi Road, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Jin ZhaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Tanzhou ChenDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Jiang LiuDepartment of Gastroenterology, Huzhou Central Hospital, Huzhou, China.
Fangfang ZhangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yuyao People's Hospital of Zhejiang, Yuyao, China.
Xiaoyun DingDepartment of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Jie PanDepartment of Gastroenterology, Wenzhou Central Hospital, Wenzhou, China.
Xiaoteng WangDepartment of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, Jiaxing, China.
Shan LiuCenter of Clinical Evaluation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Ling ZhangAlibaba Group, DAMO Academy, No.960-1 West Wenyi Road, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, 310006, China. ling.z@alibaba-inc.com.
Bin LvDepartment of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 54 Youdian Road, Hangzhou, 310006, China. lvbin@medmail.com.cn.

Funding

"Pioneer" and "Leading Goose" R&D Program of Zhejiang 2023C03050
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDeep learning algorithm-based artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced the domain of endoscopic diagnosis; however, its utilization for detecting Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections remains constrained. We aimed to develop and validate the AI diagnostic system (HOPE AI) for diagnosing H. pylori infection by analyzing extensive imaging data obtained from clinical endoscopies.

methodsThis multicenter diagnostic study was carried out across seven hospitals in China. Eligible patients were individuals aged 18 years or older who underwent upper gastrointestinal gastroendoscopy. The endoscopic images were randomly allocated (7:3) to the training and internal validation datasets for the development of HOPE AI, utilizing a multi-instance learning (MIL) framework and long short-term memory (LSTM) architectures, and the prospective external validation dataset for assessing its diagnostic efficacy. The performance of HOPE AI was also benchmarked against endoscopists. The diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve of HOPE AI were assessed to detect H. pylori infection.

resultsA total of 308,887 endoscopic images and 197 videos from 6207 patients were utilized to develop and evaluate HOPE AI. Our AI system demonstrated outstanding performance, achieving an AUC of 0.932 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.906-0.956) in the internal validation set, 0.903 (0.883-0.922) in the external temporal validation set, 0.923 (0.875-0.961) in the external temporal validation video set, and ranging from 0.855 (0.813-0.894) to 0.971 (0.955-0.985) across seven external geographical validation sets. The diagnostic sensitivity of HOPE AI (85.7%) significantly surpassed that of senior endoscopists (68.0%).

conclusionsHOPE AI exhibited robust diagnostic efficacy and interpretability in H. pylori detection, thereby enhancing the efficiency of diagnosis in routine screening contexts.

trial registrationChinese Clinical Trial Registry: ChiCTR 2400091317, 2,400,091,720.

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Artificial IntelligenceGastroscopyHelicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriAdultAgedChinaDeep LearningFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSensitivity and SpecificityArtificial intelligenceEndoscopyHelicobacter pyloriMulti-instance learning

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