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ArticleScientific reports2022

Differential diagnosis of thyroid nodule capsules using random forest guided selection of image features.

Lucian G Eftimie, Remus R Glogojeanu, A Tejaswee, Pavel Gheorghita, Stefan G Stanciu, Augustin Chirila, George A Stanciu, Angshuman Paul, Radu Hristu

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Lucian G Eftimie *Center for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania.
Remus R Glogojeanu *Department of Special Motricity and Medical Recovery, The National University of Physical Education and Sports, 140 Constantin Noica, 060057, Bucharest, Romania.
A Tejaswee *Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India.
Pavel GheorghitaFaculty of Energetics, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania.
Stefan G StanciuCenter for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania.
Augustin ChirilaPathology Department, Central University Emergency Military Hospital, 134 Calea Plevnei, 010825, Bucharest, Romania.
George A StanciuCenter for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania.
Angshuman PaulDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India.
Radu HristuCenter for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania. radu.hristu@upb.ro.

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Abstract

Microscopic evaluation of tissue sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin is the current gold standard for diagnosing thyroid pathology. Digital pathology is gaining momentum providing the pathologist with additional cues to traditional routes when placing a diagnosis, therefore it is extremely important to develop new image analysis methods that can extract image features with diagnostic potential. In this work, we use histogram and texture analysis to extract features from microscopic images acquired on thin thyroid nodule capsules sections and demonstrate how they enable the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Targeted thyroid nodules are benign (i.e., follicular adenoma) and malignant (i.e., papillary thyroid carcinoma and its sub-type arising within a follicular adenoma). Our results show that the considered image features can enable the quantitative characterization of the collagen capsule surrounding thyroid nodules and provide an accurate classification of the latter's type using random forest.

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AdenomaThyroid NeoplasmsThyroid NoduleCapsulesDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansRandom ForestCapsules

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