Rationale: Diminutive colorectal polyps (1-5mm in size) have a high prevalence and very low risk of harbouring cancer. Current practice is to send all these polyps for histopathological assessment by the pathologist. If an endoscopist would be able to correctly predict the histology of these diminutive polyps during colonoscopy, histopathological examination could be omitted and practise could become more time- and cost-effective. Studies have shown that prediction of histology by the endoscopist remains dependent on training and experience and varies greatly between endoscopists, even after systematic training. Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) may facilitate endoscopists in diminutive polyp differentiation. Up to date, studies comparing the diagnostic performance of CAD-CNN to a group of endoscopists performing optical diagnosis during real-time colonoscopy are lacking. Objective: To develop a CAD-CNN system that is able to differentiate diminutive polyps during colonoscopy with high accuracy and to compare the performance of this system to a group of endoscopist performing optical diagnosis, with the histopathology as the gold standard. Study design: Multicentre, prospective, observational trial. Study population: Consecutive patients who undergo screening colonoscopy (phase 2) Main study parameters/endpoints: The accuracy of optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps (1-5mm) by CAD-CNN system compared with the accuracy of the endoscopists. Histopathology is used as the gold standard.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
292
The CAD-CNN system will be trained in predicting the histology of diminutive polyps. Before training, the dataset will be split up into a training set and a test set. To ensure a completely independent test and training set there will be no overlap between patients (i.e. if polyps from a patient A is present in the training set it cannot be in the test set as well).
Academic Medical Centre
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The accuracy of the CAD-CNN system for predicting histology of diminutive colorectal polyps (1-5mm) compared with the accuracy of the prediction of the endoscopist. Both the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopist will use NBI for their predictions.
Accuracy is defined as the percentage of correctly predicted optical diagnoses of the CAD-CNN system and / or endoscopist compared to the gold standard pathology. For the calculation of the accuracy, adenomas and SSLs will be dichotomized as neoplastic polyps, while HPs are considered non-neoplastic
Time frame: 2 year
The mean duration in seconds of the CAD-CNN system to make a per polyp diagnosis.
The mean duration in seconds of the CAD-CNN system to make a per polyp diagnosis.
Time frame: 2 year
The mean number of attempts of the CAD-CNN to make a diagnosis per polyp
The mean number of attempts of the CAD-CNN to make a diagnosis per polyp
Time frame: 2 year
The ratio of unsuccessful diagnosis from all diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system. An unsuccessful diagnosis/failure of the CAD-CNN system is defined as more than 3 unsuccessful attempts
The ratio of unsuccessful diagnosis from all diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system. An unsuccessful diagnosis/failure of the CAD-CNN system is defined as more than 3 unsuccessful attempts
Time frame: 2 year
The number of diminutive polyps per colonoscopy that is resected and discarded without histopathological analysis with optical diagnosis strategy (the CAD-CNN system or endoscopist)
The number of diminutive polyps per colonoscopy that is resected and discarded without histopathological analysis with optical diagnosis strategy (the CAD-CNN system or endoscopist)
Time frame: 2 year
The percentage of colonoscopies in which diminutive polyps are characterized based on optical diagnosis, removed and discarded without histopathological evaluation (i.e. proportion of polyps assessed with high confidence)
The percentage of colonoscopies in which diminutive polyps are characterized based on optical diagnosis, removed and discarded without histopathological evaluation (i.e. proportion of polyps assessed with high confidence)
Time frame: 2 year
The percentage of colonoscopies in which the surveillance interval is based on the optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the patient can be directly informed of the surveillance interval after colonoscopy
The percentage of colonoscopies in which the surveillance interval is based on the optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the patient can be directly informed of the surveillance interval after colonoscopy
Time frame: 2 year
The percentage of colonoscopies in which diminutive hyperplastic polyps in the rectosigmoid are left in situ.
The percentage of colonoscopies in which diminutive hyperplastic polyps in the rectosigmoid are left in situ.
Time frame: 2 year
The diagnostic sensitivity for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
The diagnostic sensitivity for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
Time frame: 2 year
The diagnostic sensitiviy for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
The diagnostic sensitiviy for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
Time frame: 2 year
The accuracy rates on a per polyp basis
Accuracy on a polyp basis is defined as the percentage of correctly predicted optical diagnoses of the CAD-CNN system and / or endoscopist compared to the gold standard pathology. For the calculation of the accuracy on a polyp basis, adenomas, SSLs and HPs are considered different subtypes.
Time frame: 2 year
Agreement between recommended surveillance intervals, based on optical diagnosis of diminutive polyps with high confidence, compared to surveillance recommendations based on histology of all polyps
Agreement between recommended surveillance intervals, based on optical diagnosis of diminutive polyps with high confidence, compared to surveillance recommendations based on histology of all polyps
Time frame: 2 year
The diagnostic specificity for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
The diagnostic specificity for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
Time frame: 2 year
The diagnostic PPV for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
The diagnostic PPV for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
Time frame: 2 year
The diagnostic NPV for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
The diagnostic NPV for optical diagnosis of the CAD-CNN system and the endoscopists
Time frame: 2 year
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