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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2021

Three-Dimensional Vessel Segmentation in Whole-Tissue and Whole-Block Imaging Using a Deep Neural Network: Proof-of-Concept Study.

Takashi Ohnishi, Alexei Teplov, Noboru Kawata, Kareem Ibrahim, Peter Ntiamoah, Canan Firat, Hideaki Haneishi, Meera Hameed, Jinru Shia, Yukako Yagi

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Takashi OhnishiCenter for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Japan; Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. Electronic address: ohnishit@mskcc.org.
Alexei TeplovDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Noboru KawataDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Sunto-gun, Japan.
Kareem IbrahimDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Peter NtiamoahDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Canan FiratDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Hideaki HaneishiCenter for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Japan.
Meera HameedDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Jinru ShiaDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Yukako YagiDepartment of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USChiba University · JP

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the field of pathology, micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) has become an attractive imaging modality because it enables full analysis of the three-dimensional characteristics of a tissue sample or organ in a noninvasive manner. However, because of the complexity of the three-dimensional information, understanding would be improved by development of analytical methods and software such as those implemented for clinical CT. As the accurate identification of tissue components is critical for this purpose, we have developed a deep neural network (DNN) to analyze whole-tissue images (WTIs) and whole-block images (WBIs) of neoplastic cancer tissue using micro-CT. The aim of this study was to segment vessels from WTIs and WBIs in a volumetric segmentation method using DNN. To accelerate the segmentation process while retaining accuracy, a convolutional block in DNN was improved by introducing a residual inception block. Three colorectal tissue samples were collected and one WTI and 70 WBIs were acquired by a micro-CT scanner. The implemented segmentation method was then tested on the WTI and WBIs. As a proof-of-concept study, our method successfully segmented the vessels on all WTI and WBIs of the colorectal tissue sample. In addition, despite the large size of the images for analysis, all segmentation processes were completed in 10 minutes.

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Neural Networks, ComputerSoftwareHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalParaffin EmbeddingProof of Concept StudyX-Ray Microtomography

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PMID33345996
PMCPMC7927274
OpenAlexW3111322275

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