Deep learning for identifying radiogenomic associations in breast cancer.
Journal Article (Clinical Trial;Journal Article)
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To determine whether deep learning models can distinguish between breast cancer molecular subtypes based on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this institutional review board-approved single-center study, we analyzed DCE-MR images of 270 patients at our institution. Lesions of interest were identified by radiologists. The task was to automatically determine whether the tumor is of the Luminal A subtype or of another subtype based on the MR image patches representing the tumor. Three different deep learning approaches were used to classify the tumor according to their molecular subtypes: learning from scratch where only tumor patches were used for training, transfer learning where networks pre-trained on natural images were fine-tuned using tumor patches, and off-the-shelf deep features where the features extracted by neural networks trained on natural images were used for classification with a support vector machine. Network architectures utilized in our experiments were GoogleNet, VGG, and CIFAR. We used 10-fold crossvalidation method for validation and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUC) as the measure of performance. RESULTS: The best AUC performance for distinguishing molecular subtypes was 0.65 (95% CI:[0.57,0.71]) and was achieved by the off-the-shelf deep features approach. The highest AUC performance for training from scratch was 0.58 (95% CI:[0.51,0.64]) and the best AUC performance for transfer learning was 0.60 (95% CI:[0.52,0.65]) respectively. For the off-the-shelf approach, the features extracted from the fully connected layer performed the best. CONCLUSION: Deep learning may play a role in discovering radiogenomic associations in breast cancer.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Zhu, Z; Albadawy, E; Saha, A; Zhang, J; Harowicz, MR; Mazurowski, MA
Published Date
- June 2019
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 109 /
Start / End Page
- 85 - 90
PubMed ID
- 31048129
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC7155381
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1879-0534
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.04.018
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States