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Record W4411682666 · doi:10.1055/a-2643-9818

Automated breast ultrasound features associated with diagnostic performance of a multiview convolutional neural network according to the level of experience of radiologists

2025· article· en· W4411682666 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUltraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAI in cancer detection
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineHomogeneousUltrasoundReceiver operating characteristicBreast ultrasoundRadiologyNuclear medicineArea under curveLesionDiagnostic accuracyArea under the curveConvolutional neural networkInternal medicineBreast cancerPathologyMammographyArtificial intelligenceMathematicsCancerComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract To investigate automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) features affecting the use of a multiview convolutional neural network (CNN) for breast lesions according to the level of experience of radiologists. A total of 656 breast lesions (152 malignant and 504 benign lesions) were included and reviewed by 6 radiologists for background echotexture, glandular tissue component (GTC), and lesion type and size without as well as with a multiview CNN. The sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) for ABUS features were compared between 2 sessions according to the level of the radiologists’ experience. Radiology residents showed significant AUC improvement with the multiview CNN for mass (0.81–0.91, P=0.003) and non-mass lesions (0.56–0.90, P=0.007), all background echotextures (homogeneous-fat: 0.84–0.94, P=0.04; homogeneous-fibroglandular: 0.85–0.93, P=0.01; heterogeneous: 0.68–0.88, P=0.002), all GTC levels (minimal: 0.86–0.93, P=0.001; mild: 0.82–0.94, P=0.003; moderate: 0.75–0.88, P=0.01; marked: 0.68–0.89, P<0.001), and lesions ≤10mm (≤5mm: 0.69–0.86, P<0.001; 6–10mm: 0.83–0.92, P<0.001). Breast specialists showed significant AUC improvement with the multiview CNN in heterogeneous echotexture (0.90–0.95, P=0.03), marked GTC (0.88–0.95, P<0.001), and lesions ≤10mm (≤5mm: 0.89–0.93, P=0.02; 6–10mm: 0.95–0.98, P=0.01). With the multiview CNN, ABUS performance among radiology residents was improved regardless of lesion type, background echotexture, or GTC. For breast lesions smaller than 10mm, both radiology residents and breast specialists achieved better ABUS performance.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.467
Threshold uncertainty score0.895

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it