基于大规模预训练与测试时自适应,提升宫颈癌筛查模型泛化能力。
Generalizable Cervical Cancer Screening via Large-scale Pretraining and Test-Time Adaptation
- 通过自监督预训练+测试时适应,增强模型跨场景泛化能力。
- 在11个内部数据集上达0.965 AUC和0.913敏感度,外部测试保持0.950 AUC。
- 适合临床部署,对真实世界复杂场景有强适应性,且决策符合医生判断。
宫颈癌是女性生殖系统主要恶性肿瘤之一。尽管人工智能辅助细胞学检查提供了低成本、无创的筛查方案,但现有系统在复杂临床场景下泛化能力不足。为此,本文提出基于预训练与自适应的通用宫颈癌筛查范式Smart-CCS。我们构建了包含48家医疗中心共127,471张宫颈细胞全切片图像的大型多中心数据集CCS-127K。通过大规模自监督预训练,模型具备强大泛化能力;再引入测试时自适应,在复杂临床环境中优化预测结果,提升实际应用性。大规模评估显示:在回顾性队列中,11个内部测试集平均AUC达0.965,敏感度为0.913;外部测试中6个独立数据集平均AUC为0.950;前瞻性队列中三个中心分别取得0.947、0.924、0.986 AUC。结合组织学验证,系统诊断准确,可解释性分析表明其决策与临床实践一致。该方法显著提升了宫颈癌筛查在多样化临床环境中的适用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Cervical cancer is a leading malignancy in female reproductive system. While AI-assisted cytology offers a cost-effective and non-invasive screening solution, current systems struggle with generalizability in complex clinical scenarios. To address this issue, we introduced Smart-CCS, a generalizable Cervical Cancer Screening paradigm based on pretraining and adaptation to create robust and generalizable screening systems. To develop and validate Smart-CCS, we first curated a large-scale, multi-center dataset named CCS-127K, which comprises a total of 127,471 cervical cytology whole-slide images collected from 48 medical centers. By leveraging large-scale self-supervised pretraining, our CCS models are equipped with strong generalization capability, potentially generalizing across diverse scenarios. Then, we incorporated test-time adaptation to specifically optimize the trained CCS model for complex clinical settings, which adapts and refines predictions, improving real-world applicability. We conducted large-scale system evaluation among various cohorts. In retrospective cohorts, Smart-CCS achieved an overall area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.965 and sensitivity of 0.913 for cancer screening on 11 internal test datasets. In external testing, system performance maintained high at 0.950 AUC across 6 independent test datasets. In prospective cohorts, our Smart-CCS achieved AUCs of 0.947, 0.924, and 0.986 in three prospective centers, respectively. Moreover, the system demonstrated superior sensitivity in diagnosing cervical cancer, confirming the accuracy of our cancer screening results by using histology findings for validation. Interpretability analysis with cell and slide predictions further indicated that the system's decision-making aligns with clinical practice. Smart-CCS represents a significant advancement in cancer screening across diverse clinical contexts.
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