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ArticleCancer research2021

Interactive Classification of Whole-Slide Imaging Data for Cancer Researchers.

Sanghoon Lee, Mohamed Amgad, Pooya Mobadersany, Matt McCormick, Brian P Pollack, Habiba Elfandy, Hagar Hussein, David A Gutman, Lee A D Cooper

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Article in Cancer research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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9 authors.

Sanghoon LeeDepartment of Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2173-6490
Mohamed AmgadDepartment of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7599-6162
Pooya MobadersanyDepartment of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9310-1983
Matt McCormickKitware, Inc., Clifton Park, New York.
Brian P PollackDepartment of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Habiba ElfandyDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
Hagar HusseinDepartment of Pathology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
David A GutmanDepartment of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1386-8701
Lee A D CooperDepartment of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. lee.cooper@northwestern.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3504-4965

Funding

Advanced Development of an Open-source Platform for Web-based Integrative Digital Image Analysis in CancerU24CA194362 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI COOPER, LEE, GUTMAN, DAVID ANDREW · 2015 to 2019
$3.6M
Informatics Tools for Quantitative Digital Pathology Profiling and Integrated Prognostic ModelingU01CA220401 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI COOPER, LEE, FLOWERS, CHRISTOPHER R · 2018 to 2021
$1.3M
Multiscale Framework for Molecular Heterogeneity AnalysisK22LM011576 · NLM · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI COOPER, LEE · 2013 to 2015
$485k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA220401NCI NIH HHS U24 CA194362NLM NIH HHS K22 LM011576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole-slide histology images contain information that is valuable for clinical and basic science investigations of cancer but extracting quantitative measurements from these images is challenging for researchers who are not image analysis specialists. In this article, we describe HistomicsML2, a software tool for learn-by-example training of machine learning classifiers for histologic patterns in whole-slide images. This tool improves training efficiency and classifier performance by guiding users to the most informative training examples for labeling and can be used to develop classifiers for prospective application or as a rapid annotation tool that is adaptable to different cancer types. HistomicsML2 runs as a containerized server application that provides web-based user interfaces for classifier training, validation, exporting inference results, and collaborative review, and that can be deployed on GPU servers or cloud platforms. We demonstrate the utility of this tool by using it to classify tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in breast carcinoma and cutaneous melanoma. SIGNIFICANCE: An interactive machine learning tool for analyzing digital pathology images enables cancer researchers to apply this tool to measure histologic patterns for clinical and basic science studies.

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Machine LearningSoftwareAlgorithmsBiomedical ResearchBreast NeoplasmsCutaneous Malignant MelanomaDatasets as TopicFemaleHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMedical OncologyMelanomaNeoplasmsPredictive Value of Tests

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PMID33355190
PMCPMC8026494

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