Cervical lymph node metastasis prediction from papillary thyroid carcinoma US videos: a prospective multicenter study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prediction of lymph node metastasis (LNM) is critical for individualized management of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients to avoid unnecessary overtreatment as well as undesired under-treatment. Artificial intelligence (AI) trained by thyroid ultrasound (US) may improve prediction performance.

Methods

From September 2017 to December 2018, patients with suspicious PTC from the first medical center of the Chinese PLA general hospital were retrospectively enrolled to pre-train the multi-scale, multi-frame, and dual-direction deep learning (MMD-DL) model. From January 2019 to July 2021, PTC patients from four different centers were prospectively enrolled to fine-tune and independently validate MMD-DL. Its diagnostic performance and auxiliary effect on radiolog

SUBMITTER: Zhang MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015607 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature