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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Efficient Staining-Invariant Nuclei Segmentation Approach Using Self-Supervised Deep Contrastive Network.

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Vivek Kumar Singh, Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed

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  2. Keep it accurate and robust: An enhanced nuclei analysis framework.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024
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Mohamed Abdel-NasserDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan 81542, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1074-2441
Vivek Kumar SinghComputer Engineering and Mathematics Department, University Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
Ehab Mahmoud MohamedDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan 81542, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-5443-9711

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Abstract

Existing nuclei segmentation methods face challenges with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) whole slide imaging (WSI) due to the variations in staining methods and nuclei shapes and sizes. Most existing approaches require a stain normalization step that may cause losing source information and fail to handle the inter-scanner feature instability problem. To mitigate these issues, this article proposes an efficient staining-invariant nuclei segmentation method based on self-supervised contrastive learning and an effective weighted hybrid dilated convolution (WHDC) block. In particular, we propose a staining-invariant encoder (SIE) that includes convolution and transformers blocks. We also propose the WHDC block allowing the network to learn multi-scale nuclei-relevant features to handle the variation in the sizes and shapes of nuclei. The SIE network is trained on five unlabeled WSIs datasets using self-supervised contrastive learning and then used as a backbone for the downstream nuclei segmentation network. Our method outperforms existing approaches in challenging multiple WSI datasets without stain color normalization.

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deep learninghematoxylin and eosin (H&E)nuclei segmentationstain color normalizationwhole slide imaging

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PMID36553031
PMCPMC9777104

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