<p>Complete tumour removal is vital in curative breast cancer (BCa) surgery to prevent recurrence. Recently, [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG micro-PET-CT of lumpectomy specimens has shown promise for intraoperative margin assessment (IMA). To aid interpretation, we trained a 2D Residual U-Net to delineate invasive carcinoma of no special type in micro-PET-CT lumpectomy images. We collected 53 BCa lamella images from 19 patients with true histopathology-defined tumour segmentations. Group five-fold cross-validation yielded a dice similarity coefficient of 0.71 ± 0.20 for segmentation. Afterwards, an ensemble model was generated to segment tumours and predict margin status. Comparing predicted and true histopathological margin status in a separate set of 31 micro-PET-CT lumpectomy images of 31 patients achieved an F1 score of 84%, closely matching the mean performance of seven physicians who manually interpreted the same images. This model represents an important step towards a decision-support system that enhances micro-PET-CT-based IMA in BCa, facilitating its clinical adoption.</p>

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Supporting intraoperative margin assessment using deep learning for automatic tumour segmentation in breast lumpectomy micro-PET-CT

  • Luna Maris,
  • Menekse Göker,
  • Kathia De Man,
  • Bliede Van den Broeck,
  • Sofie Van Hoecke,
  • Koen Van de Vijver,
  • Christian Vanhove,
  • Vincent Keereman

摘要

Complete tumour removal is vital in curative breast cancer (BCa) surgery to prevent recurrence. Recently, [18F]FDG micro-PET-CT of lumpectomy specimens has shown promise for intraoperative margin assessment (IMA). To aid interpretation, we trained a 2D Residual U-Net to delineate invasive carcinoma of no special type in micro-PET-CT lumpectomy images. We collected 53 BCa lamella images from 19 patients with true histopathology-defined tumour segmentations. Group five-fold cross-validation yielded a dice similarity coefficient of 0.71 ± 0.20 for segmentation. Afterwards, an ensemble model was generated to segment tumours and predict margin status. Comparing predicted and true histopathological margin status in a separate set of 31 micro-PET-CT lumpectomy images of 31 patients achieved an F1 score of 84%, closely matching the mean performance of seven physicians who manually interpreted the same images. This model represents an important step towards a decision-support system that enhances micro-PET-CT-based IMA in BCa, facilitating its clinical adoption.