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Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) has a high recurrence and metastasis rate. Factors influencing recurrence and metastasis are currently unknown and there are no distinct histopathological or morphological features indicating the risks of recurrence and metastasis in LSCC. Our study focuses on the recurrence prediction of LSCC based on H&E-stained histopathological whole-slide images (WSI). Due to the small size of LSCC cohorts in terms of patients with available recurrence information, standard end-to-end learning with various convolutional neural networks for this task tends to overfit. Also, the predictions made by these models are hard to interpret. Histopathology WSIs are typically very large and are therefore processed as a set of smaller tiles. In this work, we propose a novel conditional self-supervised learning (SSL) method to learn representations of WSI at the tile level first, and leverage clustering algorithms to identify the tiles with similar histopathological representations. The resulting representations and clusters from self-supervision are used as features of a survival model for recurrence prediction at the patient level. Using two publicly available datasets from TCGA and CPTAC, we show that our LSCC recurrence prediction survival model outperforms both LSCC pathological stage-based approach and machine learning baselines such as multiple instance learning. The proposed method also enables us to explain the recurrence histopathological risk factors via the derived clusters. This can help pathologists derive new hypotheses regarding morphological features associated with LSCC recurrence.
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Texture-based Deep Learning for Effective Histopathological Cancer Image Classification
Automatic histopathological Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis for cancer classification has been highlighted along with the advancements in microscopic imaging techniques, since manual examination and diagnosis with WSIs are time- and cost-consuming. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have succeeded in histopathological image analysis. However, despite the success of the development, there are still opportunities for further enhancements. In this paper, we propose a novel cancer texture-based deep neural network (CAT-Net) that learns scalable morphological features from histopathological WSIs. The innovation of CAT-Net is twofold: (1) capturing invariant spatial patterns by dilated convolutional layers and (2) improving predictive performance while reducing model complexity. Moreover, CAT-Net can provide discriminative morphological (texture) patterns formed on cancerous regions of histopathological images comparing to normal regions. We elucidated how our proposed method, CAT-Net, captures morphological patterns of interest in hierarchical levels in the model. The proposed method out-performed the current state-of-the-art benchmark methods on accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1901628
- PAR ID:
- 10141531
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 973 to 977
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM47256.2019.8983226
