Author:
Buddenkotte Thomas,Rundo Leonardo,Woitek Ramona,Escudero Sanchez Lorena,Beer Lucian,Crispin-Ortuzar Mireia,Etmann Christian,Mukherjee Subhadip,Bura Vlad,McCague Cathal,Sahin Hilal,Pintican Roxana,Zerunian Marta,Allajbeu Iris,Singh Naveena,Sahdev Anju,Havrilesky Laura,Cohn David E.,Bateman Nicholas W.,Conrads Thomas P.,Darcy Kathleen M.,Maxwell G. Larry,Freymann John B.,Öktem Ozan,Brenton James D.,Sala Evis,Schönlieb Carola-Bibiane
Abstract
Abstract
Purpose
To determine if pelvic/ovarian and omental lesions of ovarian cancer can be reliably segmented on computed tomography (CT) using fully automated deep learning-based methods.
Methods
A deep learning model for the two most common disease sites of high-grade serous ovarian cancer lesions (pelvis/ovaries and omentum) was developed and compared against the well-established “no-new-Net” framework and unrevised trainee radiologist segmentations. A total of 451 CT scans collected from four different institutions were used for training (n = 276), evaluation (n = 104) and testing (n = 71) of the methods. The performance was evaluated using the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and compared using a Wilcoxon test.
Results
Our model outperformed no-new-Net for the pelvic/ovarian lesions in cross-validation, on the evaluation and test set by a significant margin (p values being 4 × 10–7, 3 × 10–4, 4 × 10–2, respectively), and for the omental lesions on the evaluation set (p = 1 × 10–3). Our model did not perform significantly differently in segmenting pelvic/ovarian lesions (p = 0.371) compared to a trainee radiologist. On an independent test set, the model achieved a DSC performance of 71 ± 20 (mean ± standard deviation) for pelvic/ovarian and 61 ± 24 for omental lesions.
Conclusion
Automated ovarian cancer segmentation on CT scans using deep neural networks is feasible and achieves performance close to a trainee-level radiologist for pelvic/ovarian lesions.
Relevance statement
Automated segmentation of ovarian cancer may be used by clinicians for CT-based volumetric assessments and researchers for building complex analysis pipelines.
Key points
• The first automated approach for pelvic/ovarian and omental ovarian cancer lesion segmentation on CT images has been presented.
• Automated segmentation of ovarian cancer lesions can be comparable with manual segmentation of trainee radiologists.
• Careful hyperparameter tuning can provide models significantly outperforming strong state-of-the-art baselines.
Graphical Abstract
Funder
Mark Foundation For Cancer Research
Wellcome Trust
CRUK and EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre in Cambridge and Manchester
National Institute for Health and Care Research
Leverhulme Trust
Philip Leverhulme Prize
Royal Society Wolfson
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
NoMADS
Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Infrormation
Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging