ZHANG N, ZHANG Y F, ZHOU Q. Citation:Evaluation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer with artificial intelligence assisted imaging[J]. Oncoradiology, 2026, 35(2): 264-272.
ZHANG N, ZHANG Y F, ZHOU Q. Citation:Evaluation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer with artificial intelligence assisted imaging[J]. Oncoradiology, 2026, 35(2): 264-272. DOI: 10.19732/j.cnki.2096-6210.2026.02.006.
Evaluation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy response for breast cancer with artificial intelligence assisted imaging ZHANG Nan1, ZHANG Yafang2, ZHOU Qi3
To explore the application value of artificial intelligence assisted imaging in the evaluation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) response for breast cancer.
Methods
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The clinical data of breast cancer patients downloaded from the public data set were retrospectively analyzed
and they were randomly divided into a training set and a validation set according to the 2∶1 ratio. In addition
the clinical data of breast cancer patients treated in Tangshan People's Hospital from March 2023 to May 2025 were analyzed retrospectively as the test set. All patients underwent magnetic resonance imaging examination before surgery
and all patients had definitive postoperative pathological results. Eight machine learning models were constructed by combining layered imaging dimension accumulation with anchored attention boxes and different deep learning models (convnext
efficientnet
swin
and vit) and different machine learning algorithms (SVM and Ranger)
and the best machine learning model was selected based on the training set data. The best machine learning model was optimized using the validation set
and the effectiveness of the model in predicting the curative effect of breast cancer NAC was evaluated using the test set.
Results
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Eight machine learning models were constructed in this study
and the sensitivity
specificity
accuracy and area under curve of the machine learning model based on CropNor-Subtracts-convnext-Ranger were higher than those of other machine learning models in predicting the efficacy of NAC in breast cancer. The CropNor-Subtracts-convnext-Ranger machine learning model was optimized using the validation set
with a cross entropy loss of 1.012 at the end of the optimization
sensitivity of 90.91%
specificity of 92.67% and accuracy of 91.97%. The sensitivity
specificity
accuracy
area under curve of CropNor-Subtract-convnext-Ranger machine learning model to predict the efficacy of breast cance
r NAC in the test set were 90.48%
92.81%
91.86%
0.924
and the consistency Kappa index with the pathological results was 0.832 (
P<
0.001).
Conclusion
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CropNor-Subtract-convnext-Ranger machine learning model shows good performance in predicting NAC response in breast cancer
and it has good clinical application value.
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