Construction of deep learning-based convolutional neural network model for automatic detection of fluid hysteroscopic endometrial micropolyps in infertile women with chronic endometritis

Kotaro Kitaya, Tadahiro Yasuo, Yasuo T, Yamaguchi T, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Yuko Morita, Morita Y, Atsumi Hamazaki, Hamazaki A, Shinji Murayama, Murayama S, Takako Mihara, Mihara T, Mihara M, Masaya Mihara
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology · 2024 · vol. 297 , pp. 249–253 · doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2024.04.026 · PMID:38703449 · W4394984069
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A deep learning-based convolutional neural network model was developed to automatically detect fluid hysteroscopic endometrial micropolyps in infertile women with chronic endometritis.

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OBJECTIVE(S): Chronic endometritis (CE) is a localized mucosal inflammatory disorder associated with female infertility of unknown etiology, endometriosis, tubal factors, repeated implantation failure, and recurrent pregnancy loss, along with atypical uterine bleeding and iron deficiency anemia. Diagnosis of CE has traditionally relied on endometrial biopsy and detection of CD138(+) endometrial stromal plasmacytes. To develop a less invasive diagnostic system for CE, we aimed to construct a deep learning-based convolutional neural network (CNN) model for the automatic detection of endometrial micropolyps (EMiP), a fluid hysteroscopy (F-HSC) finding recognized as tiny protrusive lesions that are closely related to this disease. STUDY DESIGN: This is an in silico study using archival images of F-HSC performed at an infertility center in a private clinic. A total of 244 infertile women undergoing F-HSC on the days 6-12 of the menstrual cycle between April 2019 and December 2021 with histopathologically-confirmed CE with the aid of immunohistochemistry for CD138 were utilized. RESULTS: The archival F-HSC images of 208 women (78 with EMiP and 130 without EMiP) who met the inclusion criteria were finally subjected to analysis. Following preprocessing of the images, half a set was input into a CNN architecture for training, whereas the remaining images were utilized as the test set to evaluate the performance of the model, which was compared with that of the experienced gynecologists. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, precision, and F1-score of the CNN model-aided diagnosis were 93.6 %, 92.3 %, 92.8 %, 88.0 %, and 0.907, respectively. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curves of the CNN model-aided diagnosis (0.930) was at a similar level (p > .05) to the value of conventional diagnosis by three experienced gynecologists (0.927, 0.948, and 0.906). CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that our deep learning-based CNN is capable of recognizing EMiP in F-HSC images and holds promise for further development of the computer-aided diagnostic system for CE.

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