Min, Z;
Bianco, FJ;
Yang, Q;
Rodell, R;
Yan, W;
Barratt, DC;
Hu, Y;
(2021)
Controlling False Positive/Negative Rates for Deep-Learning-Based Prostate Cancer Detection on Multiparametric MR images.
In:
Medical Image Understanding and Analysis.
(pp. pp. 56-70).
Springer
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Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the leading causes of death for men worldwide. Multi-parametric magnetic resonance (mpMR) imaging has emerged as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for detecting and localising prostate tumours by specialised radiologists. These radiological examinations, for example, for differentiating malignant lesions from benign prostatic hyperplasia in transition zones and for defining the boundaries of clinically significant cancer, remain challenging and highly skill-and-experience-dependent. We first investigate experimental results in developing object detection neural networks that are trained to predict the radiological assessment, using these high-variance labels. We further argue that such a computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) system needs to have the ability to control the false-positive rate (FPR) or false-negative rate (FNR), in order to be usefully deployed in a clinical workflow, informing clinical decisions without further human intervention. However, training detection networks typically requires a multi-tasking loss, which is not trivial to be adapted for a direct control of FPR/FNR. This work in turn proposes a novel PCa detection network that incorporates a lesion-level cost-sensitive loss and an additional slice-level loss based on a lesion-to-slice mapping function, to manage the lesion- and slice-level costs, respectively. Our experiments based on 290 clinical patients concludes that 1) The lesion-level FNR was effectively reduced from 0.19 to 0.10 and the lesion-level FPR was reduced from 1.03 to 0.66 by changing the lesion-level cost; 2) The slice-level FNR was reduced from 0.19 to 0.00 by taking into account the slice-level cost; (3) Both lesion-level and slice-level FNRs were reduced with lower FP/FPR by changing the lesion-level or slice-level costs, compared with post-training threshold adjustment using networks without the proposed cost-aware training. For the PCa application of interest, the proposed CAD system is capable of substantially reducing FNR with a relatively preserved FPR, therefore is considered suitable for PCa screening applications.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Controlling False Positive/Negative Rates for Deep-Learning-Based Prostate Cancer Detection on Multiparametric MR images |
| Event: | Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-030-80431-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-80432-9_5 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80432-9_5 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10131756 |
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