Automated detection of DCIS in whole-slide H E stained breast histopathology images / Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Maschenka Balkenhol, Geert Litjens, Roland Holland, Peter Bult, Nico Karssemeijer, Jeroen A. W. M. van der Laak

This paper presents and evaluates a fully automatic method for detection of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in digitized hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained histopathological slides of breast tissue. The proposed method applies multi-scale superpixel classification to detect epithelial regions in whole-slide images (WSIs). Subsequently, spatial clustering is utilized to delineate regions representing meaningful structures within the tissue such as ducts and lobules. A region-based classifier employing a large set of features including statistical and structural texture features and architectural features is then trained to discriminate between DCIS and benign/normal structures. The system is evaluated on two datasets containing a total of 205 WSIs of breast tissue. Evaluation was conducted both on the slide and the lesion level using FROC analysis. The results show that to detect at least one true positive in every DCIS containing slide, the system finds 2.6 false positives per WSI. The results of the per-lesion evaluation show that it is possible to detect 80% and 83% of the DCIS lesions in an abnormal slide, at an average of 2.0 and 3.0 false positives per WSI, respectively. Collectively, the result of the experiments demonstrate the efficacy and accuracy of the proposed method as well as its potential for application in routine pathological diagnostics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first DCIS detection algorithm working fully automatically on WSIs..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

05 April 2016

2016

Erschienen:

05 April 2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

IEEE transactions on medical imaging - 35(2016), 9, Seite 2141-2150

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bejnordi, Babak Ehteshami, 1986- [VerfasserIn]
Balkenhol, Maschenka [VerfasserIn]
Litjens, Geert [VerfasserIn]
Holland, Roland [VerfasserIn]
Bult, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Karssemeijer, Nicolaas [VerfasserIn]
Laak, Jeroen van der, 1967- [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Algorithms
Architectural features
Benign structures
Biomedical optical imaging
Breast
Breast Neoplasms
Breast tissue
Cancer
Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating
Clustering algorithms
Computer-aided diagnosis
DCIS Detection
DCIS detection algorithm
DCIS lesion
Design automation
Digitized hematoxylin and eosin stained histopathological slides
Ductal carcinoma in situ detection
Ducts
Epithelial region
FROC analysis
Feature extraction
Fully automatic method
H&E staining
Humans
Image classification
Image texture
Lesion level
Lesions
Lobules
Meaningful structures
Medical image processing
Multiscale superpixel classification
Normal structures
Pathology
Region-based classifier
Routine pathological diagnostics
Spatial clustering
Statistical texture features
Structural texture features
Tumours
WSI
Whole-slide H&E stained breast histopathology images
Whole-slide imaging

Anmerkungen:

Gesehen am 05.05.2020

Umfang:

10

doi:

10.1109/TMI.2016.2550620

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1697206034