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ArticleHeliyon2024

Combining graph neural networks and computer vision methods for cell nuclei classification in lung tissue.

Jose Pérez-Cano, Irene Sansano Valero, David Anglada-Rotger, Oscar Pina, Philippe Salembier, Ferran Marques

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jose Pérez-CanoDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Irene Sansano ValeroDepartment of Pathology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
David Anglada-RotgerDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Oscar PinaDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Philippe SalembierDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Ferran MarquesDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · ESVall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The detection of tumoural cells from whole slide images is an essential task in medical diagnosis and research. In this article, we propose and analyse a novel approach that combines computer vision-based models with graph neural networks to improve the accuracy of automated tumoural cell detection in lung tissue. Our proposal leverages the inherent structure and relationships between cells in the tissue. Experimental results on our own curated dataset show that modelling the problem with graphs gives the model a clear advantage over just working at pixel level. This change in perspective provides extra information that makes it possible to improve the performance. The reduction of dimensionality that comes from working with the graph also allows us to increase the field of view with low computational requirements. Code is available at https://github.com/Jerry-Master/lung-tumour-study, models are uploaded to https://huggingface.co/Jerry-Master/Hovernet-plus-Graphs, and the dataset is published on Zenodo https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8368122.

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Convolutional neural networksGraph neural networksHistologyLung cancer

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PMID38590866
PMCPMC10999915
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