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Automated Gleason grading of prostate cancer tissue microarrays via deep learning

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Arvaniti, Eirini, Fricker, Kim S., Moret, Michael, Rupp, Niels, Hermanns, Thomas, Fankhauser, Christian, Wey, Norbert, Wild, Peter J., Rüschoff, Jan H., Claassen, Manfred·2018·Scientific Reports

Abstract

The Gleason grading system remains the most powerful prognostic predictor for patients with prostate cancer since the 1960s. Its application requires highly-trained pathologists, is tedious and yet suffers from limited inter-pathologist reproducibility, especially for the intermediate Gleason score 7. Automated annotation procedures constitute a viable solution to remedy these limitations. In this study, we present a deep learning approach for automated Gleason grading of prostate cancer tissue microarrays with Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining. Our system was trained using detailed Gleason annotations on a discovery cohort of 641 patients and was then evaluated on an independent test cohort of 245 patients annotated by two pathologists. On the test cohort, the inter-annotator agreements between the model and each pathologist, quantified via Cohen’s quadratic kappa statistic, were 0.75 and 0.71 respectively, comparable with the inter-pathologist agreement (kappa = 0.71). Furthermore, the model’s Gleason score assignments achieved pathology expert-level stratification of patients into prognostically distinct groups, on the basis of disease-specific survival data available for the test cohort. Overall, our study shows promising results regarding the applicability of deep learning-based solutions towards more objective and reproducible prostate cancer grading, especially for cases with heterogeneous Gleason patterns.

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Arvaniti, E., Fricker, K. S., Moret, M., Rupp, N., Hermanns, T., Fankhauser, C., Wey, N., Wild, P. J., Rüschoff, J. H., & Claassen, M.
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Scientific Reports
Published
2018-08-13
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
12054-12054
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
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454
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11
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journal article
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en
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Arvaniti, E., Fricker, K. S., Moret, M., Rupp, N., Hermanns, T., Fankhauser, C., Wey, N., Wild, P. J., Rüschoff, J. H., & Claassen, M. (2018). Automated Gleason grading of prostate cancer tissue microarrays via deep learning. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30535-1

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