Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
Volume 32, Issue 10, Pages 1804-1818Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2265334
Keywords
Automated prostate cancer detection; cancer grading; digital pathology image analysis; machine learning; quantitative pathology; superpixels
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [CTP 87515]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Radical prostatectomy is performed on approximately 40% of men with organ-confined prostate cancer. Pathologic information obtained from the prostatectomy specimen provides important prognostic information and guides recommendations for adjuvant treatment. The current pathology protocol in most centers involves primarily qualitative assessment. In this paper, we describe and evaluate our system for automatic prostate cancer detection and grading on hematoxylin & eosin-stained tissue images. Our approach is intended to address the dual challenges of large data size and the need for high-level tissue information about the locations and grades of tumors. Our system uses two stages of AdaBoost-based classification. The first provides high-level tissue component labeling of a superpixel image partitioning. The second uses the tissue component labeling to provide a classification of cancer versus noncancer, and low-grade versus high-grade cancer. We evaluated our system using 991 sub-images extracted from digital pathology images of 50 whole-mount tissue sections from 15 prostatectomy patients. We measured accuracies of 90% and 85% for the cancer versus noncancer and high-grade versus low-grade classification tasks, respectively. This system represents a first step toward automated cancer quantification on prostate digital histopathology imaging, which could pave the way for more accurately informed postprostatectomy patient care.
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