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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2025

Predicting modelling for early diagnosis in early myeloproliferative neoplasms, not otherwise specified. Evidence from a machine learning study.

Anna Scattone, Andrea Lupo, Concetta Saponaro, Margherita Sonnessa, Paolo Ditonno, Samantha Bove, Annarita Fanizzi, Giuseppe Accogli, Rossana Daprile, Francesco Alfredo Zito and 2 more

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Anna Scattone *Pathology Department, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Andrea Lupo *Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Concetta SaponaroPathology Department, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Margherita SonnessaPathology Department, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Paolo DitonnoHematology and Cell Therapy Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Viale Orazio Flacco, Bari, Italy.
Samantha BoveBiostatistics and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Annarita FanizziBiostatistics and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Giuseppe AccogliBiostatistics and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Rossana DaprilePathology Department, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Francesco Alfredo ZitoPathology Department, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Maria Colomba Comes *Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.
Raffaella Massafra *Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy.

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Abstract

Background: Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a valuable tool for diagnosing and predicting outcomes in blood disorders. Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) of bone marrow biopsies (BMBs) offers detailed, high-resolution views of cells and tissues; its adoption may improve the resources dedicated to the interpretation of BMB with suspected early myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Methods: We collected a retrospective dataset of H&E-stained BMBs from 88 patients diagnosed with MPN, divided into three groups: 19 with prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis (pre-PMF), 30 with polycythemia vera (PV), and 39 with essential thrombocythemia (ET). Using AI, we framed this as a three-class classification problem. For each whole slide image, we automatically calculated cellularity and cell density. We extracted morphological features related to megakaryocytes-area, perimeter, and circularity-and summarized them for each patient using statistics like mean, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, and entropy. This resulted in 17 features combining nuclear morphology, cell density statistics, and cellularity. After selecting significant features with the Kruskal-Wallis test, we trained a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with 5-fold cross-validation to predict MPN subtypes. We then tested the model on 13 patients with a diagnosis of MPN not otherwise specified (MPN-NOS) to assess its capacity to correctly characterize the diagnosis. Results: The model achieved a mean multiclass Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.70 ± 0.01 and an accuracy of 0.60 ± 0.03. When tested on the 13 patients with MPN not otherwise specified (MPN-NOS), the model agreed with pathologists' biopsy classifications 61.5% of the time and with clinical follow-up evaluations 50% of the time. Conclusions: This study represents a first step toward the development of automated tools to support MPN diagnosis, providing potential assistance to haematologists and pathologists in the clinical management of patients.

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artificial intelligencedigital pathologymachine learningMPN-NOSmyeloproliferative neoplasms diagnosis

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