Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis

Accurate assessment of renal histopathology is crucial for the clinical management of patients with lupus nephritis (LN). However, the current classification system has poor interpathologist agreement. This paper proposes a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based system that detects and classi...

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Autores principales: Zhaohui Zheng, Xiangsen Zhang, Jin Ding, Dingwen Zhang, Jihong Cui, Xianghui Fu, Junwei Han, Ping Zhu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:36a7fad20db24340aca6e81348af65c32021-11-25T17:20:28ZDeep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis10.3390/diagnostics111119832075-4418https://doaj.org/article/36a7fad20db24340aca6e81348af65c32021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/11/11/1983https://doaj.org/toc/2075-4418Accurate assessment of renal histopathology is crucial for the clinical management of patients with lupus nephritis (LN). However, the current classification system has poor interpathologist agreement. This paper proposes a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based system that detects and classifies glomerular pathological findings in LN. A dataset of 349 renal biopsy whole-slide images (WSIs) (163 patients with LN, periodic acid-Schiff stain, 3906 glomeruli) annotated by three expert nephropathologists was used. The CNN models YOLOv4 and VGG16 were employed to localise the glomeruli and classify glomerular lesions (slight/severe impairments or sclerotic lesions). An additional 321 unannotated WSIs from 161 patients were used for performance evaluation at the per-patient kidney level. The proposed model achieved an accuracy of 0.951 and Cohen’s kappa of 0.932 (95% CI 0.915–0.949) for the entire test set for classifying the glomerular lesions. For multiclass detection at the glomerular level, the mean average precision of the CNN was 0.807, with ‘slight’ and ‘severe’ glomerular lesions being easily identified (F1: 0.924 and 0.952, respectively). At the per-patient kidney level, the model achieved a high agreement with nephropathologist (linear weighted kappa: 0.855, 95% CI: 0.795–0.916, <i>p</i> < 0.001; quadratic weighted kappa: 0.906, 95% CI: 0.873–0.938, <i>p</i> < 0.001). The results suggest that deep learning is a feasible assistive tool for the objective and automatic assessment of pathological LN lesions.Zhaohui ZhengXiangsen ZhangJin DingDingwen ZhangJihong CuiXianghui FuJunwei HanPing ZhuMDPI AGarticlelupus nephritisrenal biopsyhistopathologydeep learningartificial intelligenceMedicine (General)R5-920ENDiagnostics, Vol 11, Iss 1983, p 1983 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic lupus nephritis
renal biopsy
histopathology
deep learning
artificial intelligence
Medicine (General)
R5-920
spellingShingle lupus nephritis
renal biopsy
histopathology
deep learning
artificial intelligence
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Zhaohui Zheng
Xiangsen Zhang
Jin Ding
Dingwen Zhang
Jihong Cui
Xianghui Fu
Junwei Han
Ping Zhu
Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis
description Accurate assessment of renal histopathology is crucial for the clinical management of patients with lupus nephritis (LN). However, the current classification system has poor interpathologist agreement. This paper proposes a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based system that detects and classifies glomerular pathological findings in LN. A dataset of 349 renal biopsy whole-slide images (WSIs) (163 patients with LN, periodic acid-Schiff stain, 3906 glomeruli) annotated by three expert nephropathologists was used. The CNN models YOLOv4 and VGG16 were employed to localise the glomeruli and classify glomerular lesions (slight/severe impairments or sclerotic lesions). An additional 321 unannotated WSIs from 161 patients were used for performance evaluation at the per-patient kidney level. The proposed model achieved an accuracy of 0.951 and Cohen’s kappa of 0.932 (95% CI 0.915–0.949) for the entire test set for classifying the glomerular lesions. For multiclass detection at the glomerular level, the mean average precision of the CNN was 0.807, with ‘slight’ and ‘severe’ glomerular lesions being easily identified (F1: 0.924 and 0.952, respectively). At the per-patient kidney level, the model achieved a high agreement with nephropathologist (linear weighted kappa: 0.855, 95% CI: 0.795–0.916, <i>p</i> < 0.001; quadratic weighted kappa: 0.906, 95% CI: 0.873–0.938, <i>p</i> < 0.001). The results suggest that deep learning is a feasible assistive tool for the objective and automatic assessment of pathological LN lesions.
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author Zhaohui Zheng
Xiangsen Zhang
Jin Ding
Dingwen Zhang
Jihong Cui
Xianghui Fu
Junwei Han
Ping Zhu
author_facet Zhaohui Zheng
Xiangsen Zhang
Jin Ding
Dingwen Zhang
Jihong Cui
Xianghui Fu
Junwei Han
Ping Zhu
author_sort Zhaohui Zheng
title Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis
title_short Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis
title_full Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis
title_fullStr Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis
title_full_unstemmed Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Assessment of Glomerular Pathological Findings in Lupus Nephritis
title_sort deep learning-based artificial intelligence system for automatic assessment of glomerular pathological findings in lupus nephritis
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/36a7fad20db24340aca6e81348af65c3
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