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Patch-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Whole Slide Tissue Image Classification

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Hou, Le, Samaras, Dimitris, Kurc, Tahsin M., Gao, Yi, Davis, James E., Saltz, Joel H.·2016·2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks. However, to recognize cancer subtypes automatically, training a CNN on gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Tissue Images (WSI) is currently computationally impossible. The differentiation of cancer subtypes is based on cellular-level visual features observed on image patch scale. Therefore, we argue that in this situation, training a patch-level classifier on image patches will perform better than or similar to an image-level classifier. The challenge becomes how to intelligently combine patch-level classification results and model the fact that not all patches will be discriminative. We propose to train a decision fusion model to aggregate patch-level predictions given by patch-level CNNs, which to the best of our knowledge has not been shown before. Furthermore, we formulate a novel Expectation-Maximization (EM) based method that automatically locates discriminative patches robustly by utilizing the spatial relationships of patches. We apply our method to the classification of glioma and non-small-cell lung carcinoma cases into subtypes. The classification accuracy of our method is similar to the inter-observer agreement between pathologists. Although it is impossible to train CNNs on WSIs, we experimentally demonstrate using a comparable non-cancer dataset of smaller images that a patch-based CNN can outperform an image-based CNN.

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Authors
Hou, L., Samaras, D., Kurc, T. M., Gao, Y., Davis, J. E., & Saltz, J. H.
Venue
2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2016-06
Volume
2016
Pages
2424-2433
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
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W2302302587
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866
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31.77
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Hou, L., Samaras, D., Kurc, T. M., Gao, Y., Davis, J. E., & Saltz, J. H. (2016). Patch-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Whole Slide Tissue Image Classification. 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2016.266

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