针对胃癌的病理基础模型GRACE,实现实时临床决策支持。
A Pathology Foundation Model for Gastric Cancer with Real-World Validation

- 专为胃癌设计的多中心病理图像训练模型
- 在28项任务中宏AUC达0.9188,部分任务超0.93
- 可辅助医生诊断,提升准确率与效率
胃癌仍是癌症死亡主因,其组织学与分子异质性给诊断和风险分层带来挑战。通用病理基础模型(PFMs)在精细诊疗任务上表现受限,且少有经过前瞻性验证或临床读片研究。本文提出针对胃癌的实时评估与临床决策支持模型GRACE,基于来自37,493名患者的48,364张主要HE染色全切片图像构建。在28个临床相关任务中,GRACE持续优于代表性泛癌基础模型,宏观AUC达0.9188,其中癌前病变诊断(0.9322)、肿瘤病理评估(0.9119)、分子特征预测(0.8682)及预后预测表现优异。通过严格证据链验证,其在安全阈值下(阴性预测值100%、阳性预测值100%),可使69.6%恶性诊断病例简化审核,46.8%的MMR-IHC随访请求被分流。随机交叉读者研究显示,结合GRACE后,诊断准确率从82.0%提升至89.9%,校正后正确诊断几率近翻倍(OR 1.987),同时敏感度与特异度均提升。诊断时间减少14.9%,诊断信心上升9.0%,组间一致性显著改善。当校准至不低于资深病理医师水平时,该流程可分流60.7%萎缩性病变及82.7%肠化生病例。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Gastric cancer remains a major cause of cancer mortality, yet its histological and molecular heterogeneity complicates diagnosis and risk stratification. General-purpose pathology foundation models (PFMs) often plateau on fine-grained endpoints central to gastric cancer care, and few have undergone rigorous prospective validation or clinical reader studies. We present GRACE, a Gastric-specific foundation model for Real-world Assessment and Clinical dEcision support. GRACE was developed from multicenter gastric pathology datasets totaling 48,364 primarily HE-stained whole-slide images from 37,493 patients. When evaluated on 28 clinically relevant tasks, GRACE consistently outperformed representative pancancer PFMs, achieving a macro-AUC of 0.9188, with strong performance for precancerous lesion diagnosis (macro-AUC 0.9322), tumor histopathological assessment (macro-AUC 0.9119), molecular profiling (macro-AUC 0.8682), and prognostic prediction. Beyond benchmarking, GRACE's translational value was substantiated through a rigorous evidence chain. Under safety-gated criteria requiring 100% NPV for rule-out and 100% PPV for rule-in, GRACE streamlined review for up to 69.6% of malignancy-diagnosis cases and triaged 46.8% of MMR-IHC follow-up requests. This translational feasibility was further strengthened by a randomized crossover reader study of pathologist-AI collaboration. With GRACE assistance, diagnostic accuracy improved from 82.0% to 89.9%, yielding nearly twofold higher adjusted odds of a correct diagnosis (OR 1.987) alongside concurrent gains in sensitivity and specificity. AI assistance also reduced diagnostic time by 14.9%, elevated diagnostic confidence by 9.0%, and markedly improved inter-rater agreement. When calibrated to maintain non-inferior performance to senior pathologists, the AI-assisted workflow could triage 60.7% of atrophy and 82.7% of intestinal metaplasia cases.
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