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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2024

A color-based tumor segmentation method for clinical ex vivo breast tissue assessment utilizing a multi-contrast brightfield imaging strategy.

Roujia Wang, Lillian Ekem, Jennifer Gallagher, Rachel E Factor, Allison Hall, Nimmi Ramanujam

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roujia WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4081-4098
Lillian EkemDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Jennifer GallagherDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Rachel E FactorDepartment of Pathology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Allison HallDepartment of Pathology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Nimmi RamanujamDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7319-8415
Duke University · US

Funding

Development of CapCell Scope for Metabolic Imaging of Tissue Heterogeneity and Therapy ResponseR01EB028148 · NIBIB · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ANDREI GOGA, Nirmala Ramanujam · 2019 to 2026
$4.0M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB028148NIH HHS 5R01EB028148-02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate an automated two-step tumor segmentation method leveraging color information from brightfield images of fresh core needle biopsies of breast tissue. Three different color spaces (HSV, CIELAB, YCbCr) were explored for the segmentation task. By leveraging white-light and green-light images, we identified two different types of color transformations that could separate adipose from benign and tumor or cancerous tissue. We leveraged these two distinct color transformation methods in a two-step process where adipose tissue segmentation was followed by benign tissue segmentation thereby isolating the malignant region of the biopsy. Our tumor segmentation algorithm and imaging probe could highlight suspicious regions on unprocessed biopsy tissue to guide selection of areas most similar to malignant tissues for tissue pathology whether it be formalin fixed or frozen sections, expedite tissue selection for molecular testing, detect positive tumor margins, or serve an alternative to tissue pathology, in countries where these services are lacking.

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Breast NeoplasmsColorImage Processing, Computer-AssistedBreastFemaleHumansbreast cancermachine learningoptical imagingpathology

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PMID38348582
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