Continual learning strategies for cancer-independent detection of lymph node metastases

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Recently, large, high-quality public datasets have led to the development of convolutional neural networks that can detect lymph node metastases of breast cancer at the level of expert pathologists. Many cancers, regardless of the site of origin, can metastasize to lymph nodes. However, collecting and annotating high-volume, high-quality datasets for every cancer type is challenging. In this paper we investigate how to leverage existing high-quality datasets most efficiently in multi-task settings for closely related tasks. Specifically, we will explore different training and domain adaptation strategies, including prevention of catastrophic forgetting, for breast, colon and head-and-neck cancer metastasis detection in lymph nodes. Our results show state-of-the-art performance on colon and head-and-neck cancer metastasis detection tasks. We show the effectiveness of adaptation of networks from one cancer type to another to obtain multi-task metastasis detection networks. Furthermore, we show that leveraging existing high-quality datasets can significantly boost performance on new target tasks and that catastrophic forgetting can be effectively mitigated.Last, we compare different mitigation strategies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:85

Enthalten in:

Medical image analysis - 85(2023) vom: 16. Apr., Seite 102755

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bándi, Péter [VerfasserIn]
Balkenhol, Maschenka [VerfasserIn]
van Dijk, Marcory [VerfasserIn]
Kok, Michel [VerfasserIn]
van Ginneken, Bram [VerfasserIn]
van der Laak, Jeroen [VerfasserIn]
Litjens, Geert [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer
Continual learning
Convolutional neural network
Deep learning
Journal Article
Lymph node
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 28.02.2023

Date Revised 17.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.media.2023.102755

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352349255