Title
Co-occurring gland tensors in localized cluster graphs: Quantitative histomorphometry for predicting biochemical recurrence for intermediate grade prostate cancer
Abstract
Quantitative histomorphometry (QH), computational tools to analyze digitized tissue histology, has become increasingly important for aiding pathologists in assessing cancer severity. In this study, we introduce a novel set of QH features utilizing co-occurring gland tensors (CGT) in localized cluster graphs to quantitatively evaluate prostate cancer (CaP) histology. CGTs offer three main advantages over previous QH features: 1) gland tensors represent a novel measurement that has been anecdotally described as one of interest, but never quantitatively modeled, 2) CGTs extract measurements based on local rather than global glandular networks, constructed using cluster graphs, and 3) second order statistical features (energy, homogeneity, energy, and correlation) obtained from a co-occurrence matrix capture the spatial interactions of gland tensors in the image. We extract 4 CGT features from 56 regions across 40 intermediate grade CaP patients and evaluated the ability of CGT features to predict biochemical recurrence (BCR) within 5 years of radical prostatectomy. Intermediate Gleason score 7 cancers represent the predictive borderline for BCR cases, where 50% of cases develop BCR. We found that CGT features outperformed 5 different sets of QH features, previously shown to be effective in CaP grading, when evaluated via a Random Forest classifier (66% accuracy for CGT features versus 55% for the next closest QH feature set), all comparisons being statistically significant.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556425
Biomedical Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
biochemistry,biological organs,biological tissues,biomedical measurement,cancer,feature extraction,matrix algebra,medical image processing,pattern clustering,statistical analysis,CGT extract measurement,CGT feature extraction,biochemical recurrence prediction,computational tool,cooccurrence matrix,cooccurring gland tensor,correlation feature,digitized tissue histology analysis,energy feature,global glandular network,homogeneity feature,intermediate Gleason score,intermediate grade prostate cancer,localized cluster graph,prostate cancer histology evaluation,quantitative histomorphometry feature,radical prostatectomy,random forest classifier,second order statistical feature
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Intermediate Grade,Feature extraction,Digital pathology,Correlation,Prostate cancer,Prostatectomy,Artificial intelligence,Random forest,Biochemical recurrence
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928
978-1-4673-6456-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
George Lee1674.05
Rachel Sparks2356.76
Ali, S.391.37
Anant Madabhushi41736139.21