Applying Natural Language Processing to Single-Report Prediction of Metastatic Disease Response Using the OR-RADS Lexicon

Generating Real World Evidence (RWE) on disease responses from radiological reports is important for understanding cancer treatment effectiveness and developing personalized treatment. A lack of standardization in reporting among radiologists impacts the feasibility of large-scale interpretation of disease response. This study examines the utility of applying natural language processing (NLP) to the large-scale interpretation of disease responses using a standardized oncologic response lexicon (OR-RADS) to facilitate RWE collection. Radiologists annotated 3503 retrospectively collected clinical impressions from radiological reports across several cancer types with one of seven OR-RADS categories. A Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model was trained on this dataset with an 80-20% train/test split to perform multiclass and single-class classification tasks using the OR-RADS. Radiologists also performed the classification to compare human and model performance. The model achieved accuracies from 95 to 99% across all classification tasks, performing better in single-class tasks compared to the multiclass task and producing minimal misclassifications, which pertained mostly to overpredicting the equivocal and mixed OR-RADS labels. Human accuracy ranged from 74 to 93% across all classification tasks, performing better on single-class tasks. This study demonstrates the feasibility of the BERT NLP model in predicting disease response in cancer patients, exceeding human performance, and encourages the use of the standardized OR-RADS lexicon to improve large-scale prediction accuracy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Cancers - 15(2023), 20 vom: 10. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Elbatarny, Lydia [VerfasserIn]
Do, Richard K G [VerfasserIn]
Gangai, Natalie [VerfasserIn]
Ahmed, Firas [VerfasserIn]
Chhabra, Shalini [VerfasserIn]
Simpson, Amber L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Computed tomography
Disease progression
Journal Article
Metastasis
Natural language processing
Radiology

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Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers15204909

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363862935