用图神经网络分析乳腺癌病理切片,让AI诊断结果更可解释。
GRAPHITE: Graph-Based Interpretable Tissue Examination for Enhanced Explainability in Breast Cancer Histopathology
- 构建多尺度组织图谱,用图注意力网络捕捉不同放大倍数下的特征。
- 在53个样本上达到0.94的AUROC和0.56的mAP,阈值鲁棒性达0.70。
- 生成符合病理医生判断逻辑的可视化结果,适合临床辅助诊断场景。
医学病理图像中的可解释人工智能(XAI)对提升深度学习模型在癌症诊断中的可理解性和临床可信度至关重要。然而,模型的黑箱特性常阻碍其临床应用。本文提出GRAPHITE(基于图的可解释组织检查),一种用于乳腺癌组织微阵列(TMA)分析的后处理可解释框架。GRAPHITE采用多尺度策略,从不同放大倍数提取图像块,构建分层图结构,并利用具有尺度注意力(SAN)的图注意力网络(GAT)捕捉依赖尺度的特征。模型在140个肿瘤TMA核心及4张良性全切片图像(从中生成140个良性样本)上训练,测试集包含53个病理医生标注的TMA样本。结果表明,GRAPHITE优于传统XAI方法,实现0.56的平均精度(mAP)、0.94的受试者工作特征曲线下面积(AUROC)和0.70的阈值鲁棒性(ThR),说明其在多种阈值下保持高稳定性。临床效用方面,其决策曲线下面积(AUDC)达4.17×10⁵,显示跨阈值可靠的决策支持能力。该结果证明GRAPHITE具备成为计算病理学中临床实用工具的潜力,提供与病理医生诊断思维一致的可解释可视化,助力精准医疗。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Explainable AI (XAI) in medical histopathology is essential for enhancing the interpretability and clinical trustworthiness of deep learning models in cancer diagnosis. However, the black-box nature of these models often limits their clinical adoption. We introduce GRAPHITE (Graph-based Interpretable Tissue Examination), a post-hoc explainable framework designed for breast cancer tissue microarray (TMA) analysis. GRAPHITE employs a multiscale approach, extracting patches at various magnification levels, constructing an hierarchical graph, and utilising graph attention networks (GAT) with scalewise attention (SAN) to capture scale-dependent features. We trained the model on 140 tumour TMA cores and four benign whole slide images from which 140 benign samples were created, and tested it on 53 pathologist-annotated TMA samples. GRAPHITE outperformed traditional XAI methods, achieving a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.56, an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.94, and a threshold robustness (ThR) of 0.70, indicating that the model maintains high performance across a wide range of thresholds. In clinical utility, GRAPHITE achieved the highest area under the decision curve (AUDC) of 4.17e+5, indicating reliable decision support across thresholds. These results highlight GRAPHITE's potential as a clinically valuable tool in computational pathology, providing interpretable visualisations that align with the pathologists' diagnostic reasoning and support precision medicine.
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