arXiv:2410.15012eess.IVcs.AI2024-10被引 5

用病理医生语言训练可解释的AI,自动判断前列腺癌恶性程度。

Pathologist-like explainable AI for interpretable Gleason grading in prostate cancer

  • 基于病理医生标注的术语构建可解释AI模型
  • 分割准确率达Dice 0.713,优于传统方法
  • 适合医学AI可信性研究与临床辅助诊断

前列腺癌是全球男性最常见的癌症,其恶性程度主要通过组织病理学数据采用格里森评分系统评估。尽管人工智能在准确预测格里森评分方面展现出潜力,但其预测结果往往缺乏内在可解释性,可能引发人机信任问题。为此,我们构建了一个包含1,015张组织微阵列核心图像的新数据集,由54名国际病理医生标注,提供符合国际指南的局部模式描述。利用该数据集,我们开发了一种基于U-Net架构的内在可解释AI系统,其预测使用病理医生术语表达。该方法避免了事后解释手段,在保持或超越以格里森模式分割为直接目标的方法性能的同时(基于解释训练的骰子分数:0.713 ± 0.003,而基于格里森模式训练的为0.691 ± 0.010)。通过训练中引入软标签,捕捉数据中的固有不确定性,即使在高观察者间变异情况下仍实现优异的格里森模式分割表现。随着该数据集的发布,我们旨在推动高主观性医疗任务中的分割研究,并深化对病理医生推理过程的理解。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The aggressiveness of prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men worldwide, is primarily assessed based on histopathological data using the Gleason scoring system. While artificial intelligence (AI) has shown promise in accurately predicting Gleason scores, these predictions often lack inherent explainability, potentially leading to distrust in human-machine interactions. To address this issue, we introduce a novel dataset of 1,015 tissue microarray core images, annotated by an international group of 54 pathologists. The annotations provide detailed localized pattern descriptions for Gleason grading in line with international guidelines. Utilizing this dataset, we develop an inherently explainable AI system based on a U-Net architecture that provides predictions leveraging pathologists' terminology. This approach circumvents post-hoc explainability methods while maintaining or exceeding the performance of methods trained directly for Gleason pattern segmentation (Dice score: 0.713 $\pm$ 0.003 trained on explanations vs. 0.691 $\pm$ 0.010 trained on Gleason patterns). By employing soft labels during training, we capture the intrinsic uncertainty in the data, yielding strong results in Gleason pattern segmentation even in the context of high interobserver variability. With the release of this dataset, we aim to encourage further research into segmentation in medical tasks with high levels of subjectivity and to advance the understanding of pathologists' reasoning processes.

可解释AI病理分析前列腺癌医学影像

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