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ArticleCancers2021

An Enhanced Histopathology Analysis: An AI-Based System for Multiclass Grading of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Segmenting of Epithelial and Stromal Tissue.

Jelena Musulin, Daniel Štifanić, Ana Zulijani, Tomislav Ćabov, Andrea Dekanić, Zlatan Car

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jelena MusulinFaculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-5213-1550
Daniel ŠtifanićFaculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0001-9396-2441
Ana ZulijaniDepartment of Oral Surgery, Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Krešimirova Ul. 40, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-2618-2263
Tomislav ĆabovFaculty of Dental Medicine, University of Rijeka, Krešimirova Ul. 40, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-8872-2811
Andrea DekanićDepartment of Pathology and Cytology, Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Krešimirova Ul. 42, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-1723-6354
Zlatan CarFaculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-2817-9252
University of Rijeka · HR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral squamous cell carcinoma is most frequent histological neoplasm of head and neck cancers, and although it is localized in a region that is accessible to see and can be detected very early, this usually does not occur. The standard procedure for the diagnosis of oral cancer is based on histopathological examination, however, the main problem in this kind of procedure is tumor heterogeneity where a subjective component of the examination could directly impact patient-specific treatment intervention. For this reason, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are widely used as computational aid in the diagnosis for classification and segmentation of tumors, in order to reduce inter- and intra-observer variability. In this research, a two-stage AI-based system for automatic multiclass grading (the first stage) and segmentation of the epithelial and stromal tissue (the second stage) from oral histopathological images is proposed in order to assist the clinician in oral squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis. The integration of Xception and SWT resulted in the highest classification value of 0.963 (σ = 0.042) AUCmacro and 0.966 (σ = 0.027) AUCmicro while using DeepLabv3+ along with Xception_65 as backbone and data preprocessing, semantic segmentation prediction resulted in 0.878 (σ = 0.027) mIOU and 0.955 (σ = 0.014) F1 score. Obtained results reveal that the proposed AI-based system has great potential in the diagnosis of OSCC.

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AI-based systemdata preprocessinghistopathological imagesoral squamous cell carcinoma

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PMID33917952
PMCPMC8068326
OpenAlexW3153926656

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