Computer aided analysis of prostate histopathology images to support a refined Gleason grading system

Jian Ren; Evita Sadimin; David J. Foran; Xin Qi

doi:10.1117/12.2253887

24 February 2017 Computer aided analysis of prostate histopathology images to support a refined Gleason grading system

Jian Ren, Evita Sadimin, David J. Foran, Xin Qi

Proceedings Volume 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing; 101331V (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253887
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The Gleason grading system used to render prostate cancer diagnosis has recently been updated to allow more accurate grade stratification and higher prognostic discrimination when compared to the traditional grading system. In spite of progress made in trying to standardize the grading process, there still remains approximately a 30% grading discrepancy between the score rendered by general pathologists and those provided by experts while reviewing needle biopsies for Gleason pattern 3 and 4, which accounts for more than 70% of daily prostate tis- sue slides at most institutions. We propose a new computational imaging method for Gleason pattern 3 and 4 classification, which better matches the newly established prostate cancer grading system. The computer- aided analysis method includes two phases. First, the boundary of each glandular region is automatically segmented using a deep convolutional neural network. Second, color, shape and texture features are extracted from superpixels corresponding to the outer and inner glandular regions and are subsequently forwarded to a random forest classifier to give a gradient score between 3 and 4 for each delineated glandular region. The F1 score for glandular segmentation is 0.8460 and the classification accuracy is 0.83±0.03.

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Jian Ren, Evita Sadimin, David J. Foran, and Xin Qi "Computer aided analysis of prostate histopathology images to support a refined Gleason grading system", Proc. SPIE 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing, 101331V (24 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253887

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