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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

3E-Net: Entropy-Based Elastic Ensemble of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Grading of Invasive Breast Carcinoma Histopathological Microscopic Images.

Zakaria Senousy, Mohammed M Abdelsamea, Mona Mostafa Mohamed, Mohamed Medhat Gaber

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Zakaria SenousySchool of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7AP, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0982-4420
Mohammed M AbdelsameaSchool of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7AP, UK.
Mona Mostafa MohamedDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt.
Mohamed Medhat GaberSchool of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7AP, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0339-4474

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Abstract

Automated grading systems using deep convolution neural networks (DCNNs) have proven their capability and potential to distinguish between different breast cancer grades using digitized histopathological images. In digital breast pathology, it is vital to measure how confident a DCNN is in grading using a machine-confidence metric, especially with the presence of major computer vision challenging problems such as the high visual variability of the images. Such a quantitative metric can be employed not only to improve the robustness of automated systems, but also to assist medical professionals in identifying complex cases. In this paper, we propose Entropy-based Elastic Ensemble of DCNN models (3E-Net) for grading invasive breast carcinoma microscopy images which provides an initial stage of explainability (using an uncertainty-aware mechanism adopting entropy). Our proposed model has been designed in a way to (1) exclude images that are less sensitive and highly uncertain to our ensemble model and (2) dynamically grade the non-excluded images using the certain models in the ensemble architecture. We evaluated two variations of 3E-Net on an invasive breast carcinoma dataset and we achieved grading accuracy of 96.15% and 99.50%.

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breast cancerconvolutional neural networksdynamic ensembleelastic ensembleentropyhistopathological imagesuncertainty quantification

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PMCPMC8156865

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