Back to Search Start Over

The Performance and Clinical Applicability of HER2 Digital Image Analysis in Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review.

The Performance and Clinical Applicability of HER2 Digital Image Analysis in Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review.

Authors :
Dunenova, Gauhar
Kalmataeva, Zhanna
Kaidarova, Dilyara
Dauletbaev, Nurlan
Semenova, Yuliya
Mansurova, Madina
Grjibovski, Andrej
Kassymbekova, Fatima
Sarsembayev, Aidos
Semenov, Daniil
Glushkova, Natalya
Source :
Cancers. Aug2024, Vol. 16 Issue 15, p2761. 29p.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Simple Summary: HER2-positive breast cancer occurs in 15–30% of cases and has a poor prognosis. Digital image analysis of HER2 is promising, but its implementation in real clinical practice remains unclear. This systematic review evaluates the effectiveness of digital image analysis algorithms for HER2 in breast cancer and their performance, with a focus on testing them in real-world clinical settings. The authors aim to assess the applicability of these algorithms in practical clinical scenarios. By analyzing 25 papers from the period 2013–2024 and emphasizing mostly deep learning approaches, the review underscores the importance of standardized evaluation criteria, study designs tailored for clinical applications, and clinical validation. While direct evidence of clinical application was not found, the findings aim to guide future research and the implementation of digital image analysis in breast cancer diagnosis within clinical settings, potentially impacting the research community by advancing algorithmic applications in real clinical practice. This systematic review aims to address the research gap in the performance of computational algorithms for the digital image analysis of HER2 images in clinical settings. While numerous studies have explored various aspects of these algorithms, there is a lack of comprehensive evaluation regarding their effectiveness in real-world clinical applications. We conducted a search of the Web of Science and PubMed databases for studies published from 31 December 2013 to 30 June 2024, focusing on performance effectiveness and components such as dataset size, diversity and source, ground truth, annotation, and validation methods. The study was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42024525404). Key questions guiding this review include the following: How effective are current computational algorithms at detecting HER2 status in digital images? What are the common validation methods and dataset characteristics used in these studies? Is there standardization of algorithm evaluations of clinical applications that can improve the clinical utility and reliability of computational tools for HER2 detection in digital image analysis? We identified 6833 publications, with 25 meeting the inclusion criteria. The accuracy rate with clinical datasets varied from 84.19% to 97.9%. The highest accuracy was achieved on the publicly available Warwick dataset at 98.8% in synthesized datasets. Only 12% of studies used separate datasets for external validation; 64% of studies used a combination of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 as a set of performance measures. Despite the high accuracy rates reported in these studies, there is a notable absence of direct evidence supporting their clinical application. To facilitate the integration of these technologies into clinical practice, there is an urgent need to address real-world challenges and overreliance on internal validation. Standardizing study designs on real clinical datasets can enhance the reliability and clinical applicability of computational algorithms in improving the detection of HER2 cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20726694
Volume :
16
Issue :
15
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Cancers
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
178952380
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16152761