Title
Stacked Predictive Sparse Decomposition for Classification of Histology Sections
Abstract
Image-based classification of histology sections, in terms of distinct components (e.g., tumor, stroma, normal), provides a series of indices for histology composition (e.g., the percentage of each distinct components in histology sections), and enables the study of nuclear properties within each component. Furthermore, the study of these indices, constructed from each whole slide image in a large cohort, has the potential to provide predictive models of clinical outcome. For example, correlations can be established between the constructed indices and the patients' survival information at cohort level, which is a fundamental step towards personalized medicine. However, performance of the existing techniques is hindered as a result of large technical variations (e.g., variations of color/textures in tissue images due to non-standard experimental protocols) and biological heterogeneities (e.g., cell type, cell state) that are always present in a large cohort. We propose a system that automatically learns a series of dictionary elements for representing the underlying spatial distribution using stacked predictive sparse decomposition. The learned representation is then fed into the spatial pyramid matching framework with a linear support vector machine classifier. The system has been evaluated for classification of distinct histological components for two cohorts of tumor types. Throughput has been increased by using of graphical processing unit (GPU), and evaluation indicates a superior performance results, compared with previous research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11263-014-0790-9
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
Field
DocType
Tissue histology,Classification,Sparse coding,Unsupervised feature learning
Graphical processing unit,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Neural coding,Support vector machine classifier,Sparse approximation,Artificial intelligence,Pyramid,Histology,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
113
1
0920-5691
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.62
34
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hang Chang137429.11
Yin Zhou212210.27
Alexander Borowsky3805.39
Kenneth E. Barner481270.19
Paul Spellman545343.25
Bahram Parvin699565.01