Artificial intelligence weights the importance of factors predicting complete cytoreduction at secondary cytoreductive surgery for recurrent ovarian cancer.
- Author:
Giorgio BOGANI
1
;
Diego ROSSETTI
;
Antonino DITTO
;
Fabio MARTINELLI
;
Valentina CHIAPPA
;
Lavinia MOSCA
;
Umberto LEONE ROBERTI MAGGIORE
;
Stefano FERLA
;
Domenica LORUSSO
;
Francesco RASPAGLIESI
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Ovarian Neoplasms; Cytoreductive Surgery; Artificial Intelligence
- MeSH: Artificial Intelligence*; Decision Making; Gynecology; Humans; Neurons; Obstetrics; Ovarian Neoplasms*; Recurrence; Retrospective Studies; Weights and Measures*
- From:Journal of Gynecologic Oncology 2018;29(5):e66-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Accumulating evidence support that complete cytoreduction (CC) at the time of secondary cytoreductive surgery (SCS) improves survival in patients affected by recurrent ovarian cancer (ROC). Here, we aimed to determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) might be useful in weighting the importance of clinical variables predicting CC and survival. METHODS: This is a retrospective study evaluating 194 patients having SCS for ROC. Using artificial neuronal network (ANN) analysis was estimated the importance of different variables, used in predicting CC and survival. ANN simulates a biological neuronal system. Like neurons, ANN acquires knowledge through a learning-phase process and allows weighting the importance of covariates, thus establishing how much a variable influences a multifactor phenomenon. RESULTS: Overall, 82.9% of patients had CC at the time of SCS. Using ANN, we observed that the 3 main factors driving the ability of achieve CC included: disease-free interval (DFI) (importance: 0.231), retroperitoneal recurrence (importance: 0.178), residual disease at primary surgical treatment (importance: 0.138), and International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage at presentation (importance: 0.088). Looking at connections between different covariates and overall survival (OS), we observed that DFI is the most important variable influencing OS (importance: 0.306). Other important variables included: CC (importance: 0.217), and FIGO stage at presentation (importance: 0.100). CONCLUSION: According to our results, DFI should be considered as the most important factor predicting both CC and OS. Further studies are needed to estimate the clinical utility of AI in providing help in decision making process.
