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ArticleFrontiers in digital health2020

Image Descriptors for Weakly Annotated Histopathological Breast Cancer Data.

Panagiotis Stanitsas, Anoop Cherian, Vassilios Morellas, Resha Tejpaul, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Alexander Truskinovsky

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Panagiotis StanitsasDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Anoop CherianAustralian Center for Robotic Vision, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Vassilios MorellasDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Resha TejpaulDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Nikolaos PapanikolopoulosDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Alexander TruskinovskyDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, United States.

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SCH: Active Learning for Medical ApplicationsR01CA225435 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI PAPANIKOLOPOULOS, NIKOS · 2018 to 2021
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA225435
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introductionCancerous Tissue Recognition (CTR) methodologies are continuously integrating advancements at the forefront of machine learning and computer vision, providing a variety of inference schemes for histopathological data. Histopathological data, in most cases, come in the form of high-resolution images, and thus methodologies operating at the patch level are more computationally attractive. Such methodologies capitalize on pixel level annotations (tissue delineations) from expert pathologists, which are then used to derive labels at the patch level. In this work, we envision a digital connected health system that augments the capabilities of the clinicians by providing powerful feature descriptors that may describe malignant regions. MATERIAL AND

methodsWe start with a patch level descriptor, termed Covariance-Kernel Descriptor (CKD), capable of compactly describing tissue architectures associated with carcinomas. To leverage the recognition capability of the CKDs to larger slide regions, we resort to a multiple instance learning framework. In that direction, we derive the Weakly Annotated Image Descriptor (WAID) as the parameters of classifier decision boundaries in a Multiple Instance Learning framework. The WAID is computed on bags of patches corresponding to larger image regions for which binary labels (malignant vs. benign) are provided, thus obviating the necessity for tissue delineations.

resultsThe CKD was seen to outperform all the considered descriptors, reaching classification accuracy (ACC) of 92.83%. and area under the curve (AUC) of 0.98. The CKD captures higher order correlations between features and was shown to achieve superior performance against a large collection of computer vision features on a private breast cancer dataset. The WAID outperform all other descriptors on the Breast Cancer Histopathological database (BreakHis) where correctly classified malignant (CCM) instances reached 91.27 and 92.00% at the patient and image level, respectively, without resorting to a deep learning scheme achieves state-of-the-art performance. DISCUSSION: Our proposed derivation of the CKD and WAID can help medical experts accomplish their work accurately and faster than the current state-of-the-art.

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annotated dataconnected health and computer visionconnected health for breast cancerhistopathological dataimage descriptors

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