Accurate segmentation of nuclear regions with multi-organ histopathology images using artificial intelligence for cancer diagnosis in personalized medicine

T Mahmood, M Owais, KJ Noh, HS Yoon… - Journal of Personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
T Mahmood, M Owais, KJ Noh, HS Yoon, JH Koo, A Haider, H Sultan, KR Park
Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2021mdpi.com
Accurate nuclear segmentation in histopathology images plays a key role in digital
pathology. It is considered a prerequisite for the determination of cell phenotype, nuclear
morphometrics, cell classification, and the grading and prognosis of cancer. However, it is a
very challenging task because of the different types of nuclei, large intraclass variations, and
diverse cell morphologies. Consequently, the manual inspection of such images under high-
resolution microscopes is tedious and time-consuming. Alternatively, artificial intelligence …
Accurate nuclear segmentation in histopathology images plays a key role in digital pathology. It is considered a prerequisite for the determination of cell phenotype, nuclear morphometrics, cell classification, and the grading and prognosis of cancer. However, it is a very challenging task because of the different types of nuclei, large intraclass variations, and diverse cell morphologies. Consequently, the manual inspection of such images under high-resolution microscopes is tedious and time-consuming. Alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated techniques, which are fast and robust, and require less human effort, can be used. Recently, several AI-based nuclear segmentation techniques have been proposed. They have shown a significant performance improvement for this task, but there is room for further improvement. Thus, we propose an AI-based nuclear segmentation technique in which we adopt a new nuclear segmentation network empowered by residual skip connections to address this issue. Experiments were performed on two publicly available datasets: (1) The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and (2) Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). The results show that our proposed technique achieves an aggregated Jaccard index (AJI) of 0.6794, Dice coefficient of 0.8084, and F1-measure of 0.8547 on TCGA dataset, and an AJI of 0.7332, Dice coefficient of 0.8441, precision of 0.8352, recall of 0.8306, and F1-measure of 0.8329 on the TNBC dataset. These values are higher than those of the state-of-the-art methods.
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