Development and Prospective Validation of a Digital Pathology-based Artificial Intelligence Diagnostic Model for Pan-cancer Lymphatic Metastasis

NCT ID: NCT06517979

Last Updated: 2025-11-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

10000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-07-26

Study Completion Date

2027-06-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this diagnostic test is to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based pan-cancer universal diagnostic model for detecting pathological lymph node metastasis (LNM), and prospectively evaluate its apllication value in the real-world clinical practice.

Investigators will compare the diagnostic performance (sensitivity, specificity, etc.) of the AI model and routine pathological report issued by pathologists, to see if the AI model can improve the clinical workflow of pathological evaluation of cancer LNM in in the real world.

Detailed Description

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Lymph node metastasis (LNM) is a common mode of cancer metastasis, and accurate postoperative pathological lymph node staging is of great significance for further treatment and prognosis assessment. However, the current pathological evaluation of lymph nodes relies on manual examination by pathologists, which has a relatively low diagnostic efficiency and is prone to missed-diagnosis for micro metastatic lesions.

Therefore, investigators are to develope an artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic model for detecting pathological cancer lymph node metastasis based on deep learning algorithms, and evaluate its apllication value in the real-world clinical settings.

This study is a diagnostic test with no intervention measures, planning to collect pathological slides of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes resected from the enrolled patients and digitise them into whole-slide images (WSIs). The AI model will analyse the WSIs and generate pixel-level heatmaps and slide-level diagnostic results (with or without LNM). The routine pathological examination will be performed as usual. These two processes will not interfere with each other. And if there are inconsistency in slide-level classification between AI and routine pathological examination, investigators would convene senior pathologists for discussion to make the final decision (immunohistochemistry would be performed if necessary). The final result will be presented to the patient in the form of a pathological report.

Conditions

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Cancer Lymphatic Metastasis

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Patients with cancer undergoing LND

Patients undergo radical tumor resection and lymph node dissection (LND)

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic model

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Collect pathological slides of resected lymph nodes of the enrolled patients. Digitise these slides into whole-slide images (WSIs). Analyze the WSIs using the AI model to generate diagnostic results (with or without lymphatic metastasis). No intervention to patients would be performed in this diagnostic test study.

Interventions

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Artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic model

Collect pathological slides of resected lymph nodes of the enrolled patients. Digitise these slides into whole-slide images (WSIs). Analyze the WSIs using the AI model to generate diagnostic results (with or without lymphatic metastasis). No intervention to patients would be performed in this diagnostic test study.

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients with cancer, undergoing radical tumor resection and lymph node dissection.
* Patients with complete clinical and pathological information.

Exclusion Criteria

* The patient refused to participate in this diagnostic test.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Lin Tianxin, Ph.D

Role: CONTACT

13724008338, China

Wu Shaoxu, MD

Role: CONTACT

15017581087, China

Facility Contacts

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Cuimei Yao

Role: primary

13450210603

Other Identifiers

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SYSKY-2024-513-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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