Title
Automatic Staging of Cancer Tumors Using AIM Image Annotations and Ontologies
Date Issued
01 April 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
A second opinion about cancer stage is crucial when clinicians assess patient treatment progress. Staging is a process that takes into account description, location, characteristics, and possible metastasis of tumors in a patient. It should follow standards, such as the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors. However, in clinical practice, the implementation of this process can be tedious and error prone. In order to alleviate these problems, we intend to assist radiologists by providing a second opinion in the evaluation of cancer stage. For doing this, we developed a TNM classifier based on semantic annotations, made by radiologists, using the ePAD tool. It transforms the annotations (stored using the AIM format), using axioms and rules, into AIM4-O ontology instances. From then, it automatically calculates the liver TNM cancer stage. The AIM4-O ontology was developed, as part of this work, to represent annotations in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). A dataset of 51 liver radiology reports with staging data, from NCI’s Genomic Data Commons (GDC), were used to evaluate our classifier. When compared with the stages attributed by physicians, the classifier stages had a precision of 85.7% and recall of 81.0%. In addition, 3 radiologists from 2 different institutions manually reviewed a random sample of 4 of the 51 records and agreed with the tool staging. AIM4-O was also evaluated with good results. Our classifier can be integrated into AIM aware imaging tools, such as ePAD, to offer a second opinion about staging as part of the cancer treatment workflow.
Start page
287
End page
303
Volume
33
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85070314702
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Digital Imaging
ISSN of the container
08971889
Sponsor(s)
This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. It was also supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1U01CA190214 and 1U01CA187947.
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