Liu GS, Huang PY, Wen ML, Zhuang SS, Hua J, He XP. Application of endoscopic ultrasonography for detecting esophageal lesions based on convolutional neural network. World J Gastroenterol 2022; 28(22): 2457-2467 [PMID: 35979257 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i22.2457]
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Jie Hua, MD, Chief Physician, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China. huajie@njmu.edu.cn
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Retrospective Study
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World J Gastroenterol. Jun 14, 2022; 28(22): 2457-2467 Published online Jun 14, 2022. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i22.2457
Table 1 Statistics distribution from esophageal lesion database
Lesions invading the submucosa and muscularis mucosae
Lesions invading the muscularis propria
Lesions invading the serosal layer
Train
473
376
74
Validation
59
47
9
Test
59
47
9
Total
591
470
92
Table 2 Statistics distribution from esophageal submucosal lesion database
Lesions from the muscularis propria
Lesions from the muscularis mucosae
Train
119
294
Validation
15
37
Test
15
37
Total
149
368
Table 3 Data augmentation parameter
Transformation type
Description
Rotation
Degree range for random rotations: -90°- 90°
Shift
Shift fraction of total height and total width: 0.1
Zoom
Range for random zoom: 0.9-1.1
Flip
Randomly flip image horizontally and vertically.
Shear
Shear intensity: 0.2 (shear angle in counter-clockwise direction in degrees)
Table 4 Comparative sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy results of classification branch of object detection network and classification network alone
SENS
SPEC
ACC
Object detection classify
0.5839
0.8404
0.7861
Classification network alone
0.7400
0.9070
0.8733
Table 5 Comparison of preoperative enhanced ultrasound diagnosis and postoperative pathological diagnosis in patients
Characteristic (n = 726)
Gender, male/female
411/315
Age (yr), medina (range)
54.5 (26-85)
Invasion depth of esophageal lesion (n)
EUS diagnosis
Pathological diagnosis
Muscularis mucosa/submucosa
188
147
Muscularis propria
197
238
Serosa
45
45
Origin of esophageal lesions (n)
Muscularis mucosa
148
150
Muscularis propria
148
146
Table 6 Results of proposed network in esophageal lesion database, %
ACC
SENS
SPEC
Lesions invading the submucosa and muscularis mucosae
77.11
84.5
93.6
Lesions invading the muscularis propria
73.4
86.69
78.52
Lesions invading the serosa
98.9
72
99.14
Lesions from the muscularis mucosa
78.64
76.32
90.62
Lesions from the muscularis propria
84.4
81.64
90.92
Average
82.49
80.23
90.56
Citation: Liu GS, Huang PY, Wen ML, Zhuang SS, Hua J, He XP. Application of endoscopic ultrasonography for detecting esophageal lesions based on convolutional neural network. World J Gastroenterol 2022; 28(22): 2457-2467