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Malignant vs. Non-malignant Annotations on TCGA Breast Cancer Whole Slide Images for AI Analysis.

Zahra Alidousti Shahraki, Otto Jokelainen, Mari Valkonen, Päivi Auvinen, Arto Mannermaa, Hamid Behravan

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Zahra Alidousti ShahrakiInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Community RC Cancer, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland.
Otto JokelainenInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Community RC Cancer, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland.
Mari ValkonenInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Community RC Cancer, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland.
Päivi AuvinenCancer Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Northern Savonia Healthcare Municipality, Kuopio, Finland.
Arto MannermaaInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Community RC Cancer, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland.
Hamid BehravanInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Community RC Cancer, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland. hamid.behravan@uef.fi.

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Abstract

Identification of malignant and non-malignant regions in breast cancer whole slide images (WSIs) is essential for understanding tumor heterogeneity and histopathological evaluation. Annotated data allows deep learning models to learn features and analyze histological structures. In this study, we obtained 50 breast cancer WSIs from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and had an expert pathologist manually annotate malignant (n = 1,882) and non-malignant (n = 374) regions using QuPath. The annotated regions were independently reviewed by a second pathologist, achieving an inter-observer agreement of 99.95%. In addition, to assess annotations' quality, we trained a hybrid contrastive-supervised machine learning pipeline for patch-level malignant vs. non-malignant classification. The model achieved a high F1-score of 0.90 indicating that our annotations are comparable in quality to those presented in public datasets. The proposed dataset provides expert-quality annotations and a unique resource for benchmarking and developing AI models for breast cancer histopathology.

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Breast NeoplasmsDeep LearningArtificial IntelligenceFemaleHumansSupervised Machine Learning

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