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ArticleJournal of pathology informatics2017

Predictive Nuclear Chromatin Characteristics of Melanoma and Dysplastic Nevi.

Matthew G Hanna, Chi Liu, Gustavo K Rohde, Rajendra Singh

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Article in Journal of pathology informatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Quantifying Nuclear Structures of Digital Pathology Images Across Cancers Using Transport-Based Morphometry.Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew G HannaDepartment of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Chi LiuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Gustavo K RohdeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Rajendra SinghDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USCarnegie Mellon University · USUniversity of Virginia · US

Funding

Utility of Effusion Cytology and Image Analysis in the Diagnosis of MesotheliomaR21CA188938 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI ROHDE, GUSTAVO KUNDE · 2014 to 2015
$193k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA188938
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe diagnosis of malignant melanoma (MM) is among the diagnostic challenges pathologists encounter on a routine basis. Melanoma may arise in patients with preexisting dysplastic nevi (DN) and it is still the cause of 1.7% of all cancer-related deaths. Melanomas often have overlapping histological features with DN, especially those with severe dysplasia. Nucleotyping for identifying nuclear textural features can analyze nuclear DNA structure and organization. The aim of this study is to differentiate MM and DN using these methodologies.

methodsDermatopathology slides diagnosed as MM and DN were retrieved. The glass slides were scanned using an Aperio ScanScopeXT at ×40 (0.25 μ/pixel). Whole slide images (WSI) were annotated for nuclei selection. Nuclear features to distinguish between MM and DN based on chromatin distributions were extracted from the WSI. The morphological characteristics for each nucleus were quantified with the optimal transport-based linear embedding in the continuous domain. Label predictions for individual cell nucleus are achieved through a modified version of linear discriminant analysis, coupled with the k-nearest neighbor classifier. Label for an unknown patient was set by the voting strategy with its pertaining cell nuclei.

resultsNucleotyping of 139 patient cases of melanoma (

conclusionsNucleotyping using quantitative and qualitative analyses may provide enough information for differentiating MM from DN using pixel image data. Our method to segment cell nuclei may offer a practical and inexpensive solution in aiding in the accurate diagnosis of melanoma.

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Classificationdysplastic nevimelanomanucleotypingoptimal transport

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PMID28480118
PMCPMC5404351
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