SignificanceDiagnosis of cancerous and pre-cancerous oral lesions at early stages is critical for the improvement of patient care, to increase survival rates and minimize the invasiveness of tumor resection surgery. Unfortunately, oral precancerous and early-stage cancerous lesions are often difficult to distinguish from oral benign lesions with the existing diagnostic tools used during standard clinical oral examination. In consequence, early diagnosis of oral cancer can be achieved in only about 30% of patients. Therefore, clinical diagnostic technologies for fast, minimally invasive, and accurate oral cancer screening are urgently needed.AimThis study investigated the use of multispectral autofluorescence imaging endoscopy for the automated and noninvasive discrimination of cancerous and precancerous from benign oral epithelial lesions.ApproachIn vivo multispectral autofluorescence endoscopic images of clinically suspicious oral lesions were acquired from 67 patients undergoing tissue biopsy examination. The imaged lesions were classified as precancerous (n=4), cancerous (n=29), and benign (n=34) lesions based on histopathology diagnosis. Multispectral autofluorescence intensity feature maps were generated for each oral lesion and used to train and optimize support vector machine (SVM) models for automated discrimination of cancerous and precancerous from benign oral lesions.ResultsAfter a leave-one-patient-out cross-validation strategy, an optimized SVM model developed with four multispectral autofluorescence features yielded levels of sensitivity and specificity of 85% and 71%, respectively and overall accuracy of 78% in the discrimination of cancerous/precancerous versus benign oral lesions.ConclusionThis study demonstrates the potentials of a computer-assisted detection system based on multispectral autofluorescence imaging endoscopy for the early detection of cancerous and precancerous oral lesions.
Multispectral autofluorescence endoscopy is a non-invasive optical imaging modality that can provide contrast between malignant and benign oral tissue. We hypothesized that discrimination of cancerous and precancerous from benign oral lesions can be achieved through machine-learning (ML) models developed with multispectral autofluorescence intensity features. In vivo multispectral autofluorescence endoscopic images of benign, precancerous, and cancerous oral lesions were acquired from 67 patients and used to optimize ML models for discrimination between cancerous/precancerous and benign lesions. This study demonstrates the potentials of a ML-assisted system based on multispectral autofluorescence endoscopy for automated discrimination of cancerous and precancerous from benign oral lesions.
Multispectral autofluorescence lifetime imaging (maFLIM) endoscopy can be used to clinically image a plurality of metabolic and biochemical autofluorescence biomarkers of oral precancer and cancer. We tested the hypothesis that maFLIM-derived autofluorescence biomarkers can be used as features in machine-learning models to automatically discriminate precancerous and cancerous from healthy oral tissue. Clinical widefield maFLIM endoscopy images of cancerous and precancerous oral lesions from 57 patients were acquired and used to develop and validate a computer-aided detection (CAD) system. This study demonstrates the potentials of a maFLIM endoscopy-based CAD system for automated in situ clinical detection of oral precancer and cancer.
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