• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Endoscopy-Driven Pretraining for Classification of Dysplasia in Barrett’s Esophagus with Endoscopic Narrow-Band Imaging Zoom Videos
  • Contributor: van der Putten, Joost; Struyvenberg, Maarten; de Groof, Jeroen; Curvers, Wouter; Schoon, Erik; Baldaque-Silva, Francisco; Bergman, Jacques; van der Sommen, Fons; de With, Peter H.N.
  • Published: MDPI AG, 2020
  • Published in: Applied Sciences, 10 (2020) 10, Seite 3407
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.3390/app10103407
  • ISSN: 2076-3417
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  • Description: Endoscopic diagnosis of early neoplasia in Barrett’s Esophagus is generally a two-step process of primary detection in overview, followed by detailed inspection of any visible abnormalities using Narrow Band Imaging (NBI). However, endoscopists struggle with evaluating NBI-zoom imagery of subtle abnormalities. In this work, we propose the first results of a deep learning system for the characterization of NBI-zoom imagery of Barrett’s Esophagus with an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 83.6%, 83.1%, and 84.0%, respectively. We also show that endoscopy-driven pretraining outperforms two models, one without pretraining as well as a model with ImageNet initialization. The final model outperforms absence of pretraining by approximately 10% and the performance is 2% higher in terms of accuracy compared to ImageNet pretraining. Furthermore, the practical deployment of our model is not hampered by ImageNet licensing, thereby paving the way for clinical application.
  • Access State: Open Access