Paper Info
Title
A multi-scale superpixel classification approach to the detection of regions of interest in whole slide histopathology images
Abstract
This paper presents a new algorithm for automatic detection of regions of interest in whole slide histopathological images. The proposed algorithm generates and classifies superpixels at multiple resolutions to detect regions of interest. The algorithm emulates the way the pathologist examines the whole slide histopathology image by processing the image at low magnifications and performing more sophisticated analysis only on areas requiring more detailed information. However, instead of the traditional usage of fixed sized rectangular patches for the identification of relevant areas, we use superpixels as the visual primitives to detect regions of interest. Rectangular patches can span multiple distinct structures, thus degrade the classification performance. The proposed multi-scale superpixel classification approach yields superior performance for the identification of the regions of interest. For the evaluation, a set of 10 whole slide histopathology images of breast tissue were used. Empirical evaluation of the performance of our proposed algorithm relative to expert manual annotations shows that the algorithm achieves an area under the Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.958, demonstrating its efficacy for the detection of regions of interest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2081768
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
histopathology,whole-slide imaging,multi-scale superpixels,region of interest,breast cancer
Computer vision,Receiver operating characteristic,Computer-aided diagnosis,Artificial intelligence,Region of interest,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9420
0277-786X
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi172030.27
Geert Litjens299650.79
m hermsen3202.26
Nico Karssemeijer4992122.49
j a w m van der laak570229.53