A Deep Learning Model for Classification of Endoscopic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Open Access
- 2 March 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Vol. 18 (5), 2428
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052428
Abstract
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disease with high prevalence, and its endoscopic severity can be evaluated using the Los Angeles classification (LA grade). This paper proposes a deep learning model (i.e., GERD-VGGNet) that employs convolutional neural networks for automatic classification and interpretation of routine GERD LA grade. The proposed model employs a data augmentation technique, a two-stage no-freezing fine-tuning policy, and an early stopping criterion. As a result, the proposed model exhibits high generalizability. A dataset of images from 464 patients was used for model training and validation. An additional 32 patients served as a test set to evaluate the accuracy of both the model and our trainees. Experimental results demonstrate that the best model for the development set exhibited an overall accuracy of 99.2% (grade A–B), 100% (grade C–D), and 100% (normal group) using narrow-band image (NBI) endoscopy. On the test set, the proposed model resulted in an accuracy of 87.9%, which was significantly higher than the results of the trainees (75.0% and 65.6%). The proposed GERD-VGGNet model can assist automatic classification of GERD in conventional and NBI environments and thereby increase the accuracy of interpretation of the results by inexperienced endoscopists.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 109-2121-M-040-001)
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