Determining local and contextual features describing appearance of difficult to identify mitotic figures

Ziba Gandomkar; Patrick C. Brennan; Claudia Mello-Thoms

doi:10.1117/12.2254605

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1 March 2017 Determining local and contextual features describing appearance of difficult to identify mitotic figures

Ziba Gandomkar, Patrick C. Brennan, Claudia Mello-Thoms

Proceedings Volume 10140, Medical Imaging 2017: Digital Pathology; 1014002 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254605
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Mitotic count is helpful in determining the aggressiveness of breast cancer. In previous studies, it was shown that the agreement among pathologists for grading mitotic index is fairly modest, as mitoses have a large variety of appearances and they could be mistaken for other similar objects. In this study, we determined local and contextual features that differ significantly between easily identifiable mitoses and challenging ones. The images were obtained from the Mitosis-Atypia 2014 challenge. In total, the dataset contained 453 mitotic figures. Two pathologists annotated each mitotic figure. In case of disagreement, an opinion from a third pathologist was requested. The mitoses were grouped into three categories, those recognized as “a true mitosis” by both pathologists ,those labelled as “a true mitosis” by only one of the first two readers and also the third pathologist, and those annotated as “probably a mitosis” by all readers or the majority of them. After color unmixing, the mitoses were segmented from H channel. Shape-based features along with intensity-based and textural features were extracted from H-channel, blue ratio channel and five different color spaces. Holistic features describing each image were also considered. The Kruskal-Wallis H test was used to identify significantly different features. Multiple comparisons were done using the rank-based version of Tukey-Kramer test. The results indicated that there are local and global features which differ significantly among different groups. In addition, variations between mitoses in different groups were captured in the features from HSL and LCH color space more than other ones.

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Ziba Gandomkar, Patrick C. Brennan, and Claudia Mello-Thoms "Determining local and contextual features describing appearance of difficult to identify mitotic figures", Proc. SPIE 10140, Medical Imaging 2017: Digital Pathology, 1014002 (1 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254605

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