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ArticleScientific reports2017

PathoSpotter-K: A computational tool for the automatic identification of glomerular lesions in histological images of kidneys.

George O Barros, Brenda Navarro, Angelo Duarte, Washington L C Dos-Santos

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George O BarrosUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS) - Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Computacao Aplicada, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.
Brenda NavarroFundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) - Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Angelo DuarteUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS) - Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Computacao Aplicada, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.
Washington L C Dos-SantosFundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) - Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PathoSpotter is a computational system designed to assist pathologists in teaching about and researching kidney diseases. PathoSpotter-K is the version that was developed to detect nephrological lesions in digital images of kidneys. Here, we present the results obtained using the first version of PathoSpotter-K, which uses classical image processing and pattern recognition methods to detect proliferative glomerular lesions with an accuracy of 88.3 ± 3.6%. Such performance is only achieved by similar systems if they use images of cell in contexts that are much less complex than the glomerular structure. The results indicate that the approach can be applied to the development of systems designed to train pathology students and to assist pathologists in determining large-scale clinicopathological correlations in morphological research.

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Automation, LaboratoryHistocytochemistryHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedKidney DiseasesKidney GlomerulusPathology

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PMID28436482
PMCPMC5402276

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