Simple Summary Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common type of thyroid cancer and
could be cured if diagnosed and treated early. In clinical practice, the primary method for
determining diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma is manual visual inspection of
cytopathology slides, which is difficult, time consuming and subjective with a high inter-
observer variability and sometimes causes suboptimal patient management due to false-
positive and false-negative results. This study presents a fast, fully automatic and efficient …

Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer in the endocrine system, and papillary thyroid
carcinoma (PTC) is the most prevalent type of thyroid cancer, accounting for 70 to 80% of all
thyroid cancer cases. In clinical practice, visual inspection of cytopathological slides is an
essential initial method used by the pathologist to diagnose PTC. Manual visual assessment
of the whole slide images is difficult, time consuming, and subjective, with a high inter-
observer variability, which can sometimes lead to suboptimal patient management due to …