Table 2

Application of AI model in colposcopy to detect cervical cancer

Author and Ref.Aim of studyStudy typeNumber of subjectsKey study outcomes
Yuan C60Detection on LSIL+ colposcopyModel development and validation study22,330 cases for AI model training and evaluation; 5384 cases for validation
(private dataset)
The AI model was able to segment and classify LSIL and HSIL cervical lesions. The accuracy of the AI model on LSIL is 84.1% and the sensitivity of the AI model on HSIL is 88.47%. In the validation study, 84.67% HSIL cases were detected, which was better than the colposcopist
Yan L61Detection on LSIL/HSIL colposcopyModel development study7,530 patients, 15,276 images
(private dataset)
Significant 95% accuracy on normal/LSIL classification, and 90% accuracy on HSIL-and HSIL+; a stronger diagnostic performance than the junior colposcopist in 300 samples from the test set
Xue P69Detection on LSIL/HSIL colposcopyModel development and validation studyTotal 19,435 patients and 101,267 images
(private dataset)
Accuracy of AI model on LSIL/HSIL classification is 80.7% compared to the colposcopist interpretation on the validation dataset. The AI model showed slightly higher sensitivity: 65.8% vs. 60.4%
Wu A71Performance of CAIADS69 on CIN2+/CIN3+ detectionHospital-based retrospective study (AI model external study)1,146 patients
(private dataset)
The average sensitivity of CAIADS on CIN2+/CIN3+ is 80%, which was not lower than a senior colposcopist. The sensitivity of the junior colposcopist with CAIADS is significantly improved. Number of biopsies recommended by CAIADS per case was less than the colposcopist
Kim S72Evaluation on the feasibility of interpreting colposcopy images with the AI-assistObservation study (AI system application study)234 patients
(private dataset)
The final diagnostic accuracy of Physician 1 with AI-assist on colposcopy images increased from 76% to 80%, and the accuracy of Physician 2 increased from 71% to 77%
Fu L13Improved colposcopy DL-base model with HPV test result and cytology test resultModel developmet and validation study2,160 cases
(private dataset)
The diagnostic performance with AUC was improved to 0.921 as a multimodal integrated model from AUC 0.84 as a colposcopy-based DL model
Mukku J73CIN detection on colposcopy images with clinical outcomes by multimodal strategyModel development study900 images from IARC image bank11Impressive 89.32% sensitivity and 91.6% specificity on diagnosing CIN with fusion strategy on various clinical findings (including age, HPV test, biopsy result, and transformation zone)

HSIL, high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; LSIL, low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; CAIADS, colposcopic artificial intelligence auxiliary diagnostic system; CIN, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; AI, artificial intelligence; DL, deep learning.