Self-Supervised Learning with Limited Labeled Data for Prostate Cancer Detection in High Frequency Ultrasound

11/01/2022
by   Paul F. R. Wilson, et al.
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Deep learning-based analysis of high-frequency, high-resolution micro-ultrasound data shows great promise for prostate cancer detection. Previous approaches to analysis of ultrasound data largely follow a supervised learning paradigm. Ground truth labels for ultrasound images used for training deep networks often include coarse annotations generated from the histopathological analysis of tissue samples obtained via biopsy. This creates inherent limitations on the availability and quality of labeled data, posing major challenges to the success of supervised learning methods. On the other hand, unlabeled prostate ultrasound data are more abundant. In this work, we successfully apply self-supervised representation learning to micro-ultrasound data. Using ultrasound data from 1028 biopsy cores of 391 subjects obtained in two clinical centres, we demonstrate that feature representations learnt with this method can be used to classify cancer from non-cancer tissue, obtaining an AUROC score of 91 this is the first successful end-to-end self-supervised learning approach for prostate cancer detection using ultrasound data. Our method outperforms baseline supervised learning approaches, generalizes well between different data centers, and scale well in performance as more unlabeled data are added, making it a promising approach for future research using large volumes of unlabeled data.

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