AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image
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AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image
AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image
智能肿瘤学2025年1卷第2期 页码:128-138
作者机构:
1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences,Shandong,Jinan,China,250117
2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Ministry of Education, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital,Tianjin,China,300060
3. Department of Breast Cancer Pathology and Research Laboratory, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital,Tianjin,China,300060
4. Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University,Shaanxi,Xi'an,China,710061
5. State Key Laboratory of Female Fertility Promotion, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University Third Hospital,Beijing,China,100191
6. Department of Hebei Key Laboratory of Medical–Industrial Integration Precision Medicine, Affiliated Hospital, North China University of Science and Technology,Hebei,Tangshan,China,063000
7. Department of Research and Development, National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin,Tianjin,China,300000
8. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oncology for Breast Cancer, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing University School of Medicine,Chongqing,China,400030
Shuai Wang, Xiaojing Guo, Jinlu Ma, 等. AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image[J]. 智能肿瘤学, 2025,1(2):128-138.
Shuai Wang, Xiaojing Guo, Jinlu Ma, et al. AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image[J]. Intelligent Oncology, 2025, 1(2): 128-138.
Shuai Wang, Xiaojing Guo, Jinlu Ma, 等. AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image[J]. 智能肿瘤学, 2025,1(2):128-138.DOI: 10.1016/j.intonc.2025.03.008.
Shuai Wang, Xiaojing Guo, Jinlu Ma, et al. AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image[J]. Intelligent Oncology, 2025, 1(2): 128-138.DOI: 10.1016/j.intonc.2025.03.008.
AWCDL: Automatic weight calibration deep learning for detecting HER2 status in whole-slide breast cancer image
) gene amplification status is critical to guiding human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted therapy in breast cancer. Up to 40% of breast cancer patients are reported as having an immunohistochemistry (IHC) of HER2 2+ and requiring additional testing using fluorescence
in situ
hybridization to confirm the results. This paper aims to establish an automatically weighted calibration deep learning (AWCDL) algorithm to predict
ERBB2
amplification based on IHC images. In this study
we applied IHC HER2 2+ images from 1
073 breast cancer patients at three cancer centers in China and extracted 376
099 tiles. Among these
269
664 tiles were used for internal and external validation. The designed AWCDL consists of two steps. In Step 1
the internal validation achieved an accuracy of 89%
with a specificity of 0.89 and a sensitivity of 0.89. The external validation in the two other centers showed an average accuracy of 85%
with a specificity of 0.86 and a sensitivity of 0.82. In Ste
p 2
the model achieved higher accuracy for the slides predicted as negative in Step 1 by automatically calibrating the weight. Collectively
these results suggest that this AWCDL model has successfully proved useful as an alternative method to fluorescence
in situ
hybridization for assessing the
ERBB2
amplification status in breast cancer.
Abstract
Defining an
ERBB2
(
HER2/neu
) gene amplification status is critical to guiding human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted therapy in breast cancer. Up to 40% of breast cancer patients are reported as having an immunohistochemistry (IHC) of HER2 2+ and requiring additional testing using fluorescence
in situ
hybridization to confirm the results. This paper aims to establish an automatically weighted calibration deep learning (AWCDL) algorithm to predict
ERBB2
amplification based on IHC images. In this study
we applied IHC HER2 2+ images from 1
073 breast cancer patients at three cancer centers in China and extracted 376
099 tiles. Among these
269
664 tiles were used for internal and external validation. The designed AWCDL consists of two steps. In Step 1
the internal validation achieved an accuracy of 89%
with a specificity of 0.89 and a sensitivity of 0.89. The external validation in the two other centers showed an average accuracy of 85%
with a specificity of 0.86 and a sensitivity of 0.82. In Step 2
the model achieved higher accuracy for the slides predicted as negative in Step 1 by automatically calibrating the weight. Collectively
these results suggest that this AWCDL model has successfully proved useful as an alternative method to fluorescence