Title
Classifying Breast Histopathology Images With A Ductal Instance-Oriented Pipeline
Abstract
In this study, we propose the Ductal Instance-Oriented Pipeline (DIOP) that contains a duct-level instance segmentation model, a tissue-level semantic segmentation model, and three-levels of features for diagnostic classification. Based on recent advancements in instance segmentation and the Mask R-CNN model, our duct-level segmenter tries to identify each ductal individual inside a microscopic image; then, it extracts tissue-level information from the identified ductal instances. Leveraging three levels of information obtained from these ductal instances and also the histopathology image, the proposed DIOP outperforms previous approaches (both feature-based and CNN-based) in all diagnostic tasks; for the four-way classification task, the DIOP achieves comparable performance to general pathologists in this unique dataset. The proposed DIOP only takes a few seconds to run in the inference time, which could be used interactively on most modern computers. More clinical explorations are needed to study the robustness and generalizability of this system in the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412824
2020 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
biomedical imaging, deep learning, cancer diagnosis, biopsy, histopathology, machine learning, whole slide images
Conference
1051-4651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beibin Li101.69
Ezgi Mercan2325.78
Sachin Mehta3145.06
Stevan Knezevich401.35
Corey W. Arnold593.56
Donald Weaver6294.44
Joann G. Elmore700.68
Linda G. Shapiro82603847.56