Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms continue to rival human performance on a variety of clinical tasks, while their actual impact on human diagnosticians, when incorporated into clinical workflows, remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we developed a deep learning-based assistan...

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Autores principales: Amirhossein Kiani, Bora Uyumazturk, Pranav Rajpurkar, Alex Wang, Rebecca Gao, Erik Jones, Yifan Yu, Curtis P. Langlotz, Robyn L. Ball, Thomas J. Montine, Brock A. Martin, Gerald J. Berry, Michael G. Ozawa, Florette K. Hazard, Ryanne A. Brown, Simon B. Chen, Mona Wood, Libby S. Allard, Lourdes Ylagan, Andrew Y. Ng, Jeanne Shen
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:615de5de8f5543b69db4c81e88e472312021-12-02T13:34:33ZImpact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer10.1038/s41746-020-0232-82398-6352https://doaj.org/article/615de5de8f5543b69db4c81e88e472312020-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0232-8https://doaj.org/toc/2398-6352Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms continue to rival human performance on a variety of clinical tasks, while their actual impact on human diagnosticians, when incorporated into clinical workflows, remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we developed a deep learning-based assistant to help pathologists differentiate between two subtypes of primary liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma, on hematoxylin and eosin-stained whole-slide images (WSI), and evaluated its effect on the diagnostic performance of 11 pathologists with varying levels of expertise. Our model achieved accuracies of 0.885 on a validation set of 26 WSI, and 0.842 on an independent test set of 80 WSI. Although use of the assistant did not change the mean accuracy of the 11 pathologists (p = 0.184, OR = 1.281), it significantly improved the accuracy (p = 0.045, OR = 1.499) of a subset of nine pathologists who fell within well-defined experience levels (GI subspecialists, non-GI subspecialists, and trainees). In the assisted state, model accuracy significantly impacted the diagnostic decisions of all 11 pathologists. As expected, when the model’s prediction was correct, assistance significantly improved accuracy (p = 0.000, OR = 4.289), whereas when the model’s prediction was incorrect, assistance significantly decreased accuracy (p = 0.000, OR = 0.253), with both effects holding across all pathologist experience levels and case difficulty levels. Our results highlight the challenges of translating AI models into the clinical setting, and emphasize the importance of taking into account potential unintended negative consequences of model assistance when designing and testing medical AI-assistance tools.Amirhossein KianiBora UyumazturkPranav RajpurkarAlex WangRebecca GaoErik JonesYifan YuCurtis P. LanglotzRobyn L. BallThomas J. MontineBrock A. MartinGerald J. BerryMichael G. OzawaFlorette K. HazardRyanne A. BrownSimon B. ChenMona WoodLibby S. AllardLourdes YlaganAndrew Y. NgJeanne ShenNature PortfolioarticleComputer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsR858-859.7ENnpj Digital Medicine, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020)
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R858-859.7
Amirhossein Kiani
Bora Uyumazturk
Pranav Rajpurkar
Alex Wang
Rebecca Gao
Erik Jones
Yifan Yu
Curtis P. Langlotz
Robyn L. Ball
Thomas J. Montine
Brock A. Martin
Gerald J. Berry
Michael G. Ozawa
Florette K. Hazard
Ryanne A. Brown
Simon B. Chen
Mona Wood
Libby S. Allard
Lourdes Ylagan
Andrew Y. Ng
Jeanne Shen
Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
description Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms continue to rival human performance on a variety of clinical tasks, while their actual impact on human diagnosticians, when incorporated into clinical workflows, remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we developed a deep learning-based assistant to help pathologists differentiate between two subtypes of primary liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma, on hematoxylin and eosin-stained whole-slide images (WSI), and evaluated its effect on the diagnostic performance of 11 pathologists with varying levels of expertise. Our model achieved accuracies of 0.885 on a validation set of 26 WSI, and 0.842 on an independent test set of 80 WSI. Although use of the assistant did not change the mean accuracy of the 11 pathologists (p = 0.184, OR = 1.281), it significantly improved the accuracy (p = 0.045, OR = 1.499) of a subset of nine pathologists who fell within well-defined experience levels (GI subspecialists, non-GI subspecialists, and trainees). In the assisted state, model accuracy significantly impacted the diagnostic decisions of all 11 pathologists. As expected, when the model’s prediction was correct, assistance significantly improved accuracy (p = 0.000, OR = 4.289), whereas when the model’s prediction was incorrect, assistance significantly decreased accuracy (p = 0.000, OR = 0.253), with both effects holding across all pathologist experience levels and case difficulty levels. Our results highlight the challenges of translating AI models into the clinical setting, and emphasize the importance of taking into account potential unintended negative consequences of model assistance when designing and testing medical AI-assistance tools.
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author Amirhossein Kiani
Bora Uyumazturk
Pranav Rajpurkar
Alex Wang
Rebecca Gao
Erik Jones
Yifan Yu
Curtis P. Langlotz
Robyn L. Ball
Thomas J. Montine
Brock A. Martin
Gerald J. Berry
Michael G. Ozawa
Florette K. Hazard
Ryanne A. Brown
Simon B. Chen
Mona Wood
Libby S. Allard
Lourdes Ylagan
Andrew Y. Ng
Jeanne Shen
author_facet Amirhossein Kiani
Bora Uyumazturk
Pranav Rajpurkar
Alex Wang
Rebecca Gao
Erik Jones
Yifan Yu
Curtis P. Langlotz
Robyn L. Ball
Thomas J. Montine
Brock A. Martin
Gerald J. Berry
Michael G. Ozawa
Florette K. Hazard
Ryanne A. Brown
Simon B. Chen
Mona Wood
Libby S. Allard
Lourdes Ylagan
Andrew Y. Ng
Jeanne Shen
author_sort Amirhossein Kiani
title Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
title_short Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
title_full Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
title_fullStr Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
title_full_unstemmed Impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
title_sort impact of a deep learning assistant on the histopathologic classification of liver cancer
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2020
url https://doaj.org/article/615de5de8f5543b69db4c81e88e47231
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