Automated detection and classification of cervical and anal squamous cancer precursors using deep learning and multidevice colposcopy
摘要
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection presents neoplastic risks in both cervix and anus. High-resolution colposcopy/anoscopy is crucial for assessing these regions but has suboptimal accuracy. This study aims to develop a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to identify and differentiate low-grade (LSIL) and high grade (HSIL) squamous intraepithelial lesions, in the cervix and anus. A retrospective multicenter study was conducted to develop a CNN using 320 colposcopy and anoscopy examinations, from 3 device types. Dataset included 88,073 frames, categorized as LSIL or HSIL based on pathological analysis. The data was split into training/validation (90%, n = 79,265, including a threefold cross-validation) and test sets (10%, n = 8808). Diagnostic metrics including sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV, respectively) and an area under the receiving operating and the precision-recall curves (AUC-ROC and AUC-PR) were calculated. During training/validation phase, the model achieved an average sensitivity for HSIL of 98.1% (IC95% 97.6–98.5%), specificity of 97.4% (IC95% 96.0–98.8%), PPV of 97.2% (IC95% 95.8–98.7%), NPV of 98.2% (IC95% 97.7–98.6%), and accuracy of 97.7% (IC95% 97.2–98.6%). The mean AUC-ROC and AUC-PR were both 0.98 ± 0.01. In the testing phase, performance metrics for HSIL were: sensitivity 99.0%, specificity 97.8%, PPV 97.6%, NPV 99.0%, and accuracy 98.3%. HPV infection impacts both cervical and anal region. This study developed a pioneering CNN to differentiate HSIL and LSIL in HPV-related dysplastic lesions, during cervical and anal examinations. This model achieved promising results, suggesting its potential to improve detection accuracy and cost-effectiveness in clinical practice.