Objective image analysis of non-magnifying image-enhanced endoscopy for diagnosis of small depressed early gastric cancers

Jiro Watari; Masaya Kobayashi; Keisuke Nakai; Chiyomi Ito; Akio Tamura; Tomohiro Ogawa; Takahisa Yamasaki; Takuya Okugawa; Takashi Kondo; Tomoaki Kono; Katsuyuki Tozawa; Toshihiko Tomita; Tadayuki Oshima; Hirokazu Fukui; Takeshi Morimoto; Hiroto Miwa

doi:10.1055/a-0735-9317

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2018; 06(12): E1445-E1453
DOI: 10.1055/a-0735-9317

Original article

Objective image analysis of non-magnifying image-enhanced endoscopy for diagnosis of small depressed early gastric cancers

Jiro Watari

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Masaya Kobayashi

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Keisuke Nakai

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Chiyomi Ito

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Akio Tamura

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Tomohiro Ogawa

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Takahisa Yamasaki

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Takuya Okugawa

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Takashi Kondo

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Tomoaki Kono

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Katsuyuki Tozawa

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Toshihiko Tomita

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Tadayuki Oshima

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Hirokazu Fukui

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Takeshi Morimoto

²Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Hiroto Miwa

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Abstract

Background Gastric cancers (GC) after H. pylori eradication are difficult to diagnose even by magnifying narrow-band imaging (NBI) or blue laser imaging (BLI) endoscopy. Little is known with regard to non-magnifying (NM)-NBI/BLI for early GC so we examined the efficacy of NM-NBI/BLI for early GC diagnosis.

Methods We retrospectively analyzed the images of 29 small (≤ 1 cm) intramucosal GC that had been treated with endoscopic submucosal dissection and 137 benign depressed lesions (BDLs). The brightness and shape of the GCs and BDLs by NM-NBI/BLI were assessed with ImageJ software.

Results The NBI/BLI-index, which indicates the brightness of NBI/BLI for visualization, was significantly higher in GC than BDLs in both the H. pylori-infected (P = 0.009) and -eradicated group (P < 0.0001), indicating that GC exhibited brighter colors than the normal surrounding mucosa. The C-index, which refers to the circularity of the lesion, was also significantly higher in GC than BDLs in both H. pylori-infected (P = 0.006) and -eradicated cases (P = 0.004). Based on receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis, cutoff values for the NBI/BLI- and C-indices for GC were 1.04 and 0.58 in the H. pylori-infected cases, and 0.98 and 0.64 in the H. pylori-eradicated cases. With the reference value of the NBI/BLI-index set at ≥ 0.69 with the C-index at ≥ 0.21 in the H. pylori-infected and the NBI/BLI-index at ≥ 0.80 with the C-index at ≥ 0.32 in the H. pylori-eradicated cases, both the sensitivity and negative predictive value for early GC were 100 %. A high NBI/BLI-index tended to be associated with a wide length of the intervening part histologically in the H. pylori-eradicated cases (P = 0.09).

Conclusions The small depressed-type early GC had brighter color and rounder shape compared to BDLs in both H. pylori-infected and -eradicated cases. The NBI/BLI- and C-indices calculated by the image analysis may facilitate identification of small depressed-type GC.

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