Brain shift makes the pre-operative MRI navigation highly inaccurate hence the intraoperative modalities are adopted in surgical theatre. Due to the excellent economic and portability merits, the Ultrasound imaging is used at our collaborating hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College London, UK. However, it is found that intraoperative diagnosis on Ultrasound images is not straightforward and consistent, even for very experienced clinical experts. Hence, there is a demand to design a Computer-aided-diagnosis system to provide a robust second opinion to help the surgeons. The proposed CAD system based on "Mixed-Attention Res-U-net with asymmetric loss function" achieves the state-of-the-art results comparing to the ground truth by classification at pixel-level directly, it also outperforms all the current main stream pixel-level classification methods (e.g. U-net, FCN) in all the evaluation metrices.
Correctly capturing intraoperative brain shift in image-guided neurosurgical procedures is a critical task for aligning preoperative data with intraoperative geometry for ensuring accurate surgical navigation. While the finite element method (FEM) is a proven technique to effectively approximate soft tissue deformation through biomechanical formulations, their degree of success boils down to a trade-off between accuracy and speed. To circumvent this problem, the most recent works in this domain have proposed leveraging data-driven models obtained by training various machine learning algorithms…
Data-driven registration and modeling of brain deformation for image-guided neurosurgery
LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon（里斯本大学科学学院LASIGE）；Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School（哈佛医学院布里洛妇女医院神经外科与放射科）；Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University（康科迪亚大学工程与计算机科学学院）；Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学癌症研究英国中心）；Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学肿瘤科）；Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学临床神经科学系）；Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) and Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School（哈佛医学院波士顿儿童医院计算健康信息学计划与放射科）；Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM（索邦大学巴黎脑研究所-ICM）
Vietnam Aviation Academy（越南航空学院）；Ho Chi Minh City Open University（胡志明市开放大学）；University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM（胡志明市国家大学信息技术大学）
According to some medical imaging techniques, breast histopathology images called Hematoxylin and Eosin are considered as the gold standard for cancer diagnoses. Based on the idea of dividing the pathologic image (WSI) into multiple patches, we used the window [512,512] sliding from left to right and sliding from top to bottom, each sliding step overlapping by 50% to augmented data on a dataset of 400 images which were gathered from the ICIAR 2018 Grand Challenge. Then use the EffficientNet model to classify and identify the histopathological images of breast cancer into 4 types: Normal, Benig…
Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (LGESS) is rare form of cancer, accounting for about 0.2% of all uterine cancer cases. Approximately 75% of LGESS patients are initially misdiagnosed with leiomyoma, which is a type of benign tumor, also known as fibroids. In this research, uterine tissue biopsy images of potential LGESS patients are preprocessed using segmentation and staining normalization algorithms. A variety of classic machine learning and leading deep learning models are then applied to classify tissue images as either benign or cancerous. For the classic techniques considered, the h…
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；University of Vermont College of Medicine（佛蒙特大学医学院）；University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）
Training end-to-end networks for classifying gigapixel size histopathological images is computationally intractable. Most approaches are patch-based and first learn local representations (patch-wise) before combining these local representations to produce image-level decisions. However, dividing large tissue structures into patches limits the context available to these networks, which may reduce their ability to learn representations from clinically relevant structures. In this paper, we introduce a novel attention-based network, the Holistic ATtention Network (HATNet) to classify breast biops…
Northeastern University（东北大学）；China Medical University（中国医科大学）；University of Luebeck（吕贝克大学）
The gold standard for gastric cancer detection is gastric histopathological image analysis, but there are certain drawbacks in the existing histopathological detection and diagnosis. In this paper, based on the study of computer aided diagnosis system, graph based features are applied to gastric cancer histopathology microscopic image analysis, and a classifier is used to classify gastric cancer cells from benign cells. Firstly, image segmentation is performed, and after finding the region, cell nuclei are extracted using the k-means method, the minimum spanning tree (MST) is drawn, and graph …
Politecnico di Milano（米兰理工大学）；Université de Strasbourg（斯特拉斯堡大学）；Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII（教皇约翰二十三世医院）
Objective: Accurate visual classification of bladder tissue during Trans-Urethral Resection of Bladder Tumor (TURBT) procedures is essential to improve early cancer diagnosis and treatment. During TURBT interventions, White Light Imaging (WLI) and Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) techniques are used for lesion detection. Each imaging technique provides diverse visual information that allows clinicians to identify and classify cancerous lesions. Computer vision methods that use both imaging techniques could improve endoscopic diagnosis. We address the challenge of tissue classification when annotation…
Machine Learning Applications to Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy in Optical Diagnosis; A Systematic Review
Research Ireland（爱尔兰研究中心）；Center for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence（人工智能研究培训中心）；School of Computer Science & Information Technology（计算机科学与信息技术学院）；University College Cork（科克大学学院）；Tyndall National Institute（廷德尔国家研究所）；Insight Centre for Data Analytics（数据洞察分析中心）；School of Physics（物理学院）
Kyushu University（九州大学）；Kyoto University Hospital（京都大学医院）
Pathological diagnosis is used for examining cancer in detail, and its automation is in demand. To automatically segment each cancer area, a patch-based approach is usually used since a Whole Slide Image (WSI) is huge. However, this approach loses the global information needed to distinguish between classes. In this paper, we utilized the Distance from the Boundary of tissue (DfB), which is global information that can be extracted from the original image. We experimentally applied our method to the three-class classification of cervical cancer, and found that it improved the total performance …
Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa（蓬塔格罗萨州立大学）；Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná（巴拉那天主教大学）；Universidade Federal do Paraná（巴拉那联邦大学）；École de Technologie Supérieure（高等技术学院）
Biopsies are the gold standard for breast cancer diagnosis. This task can be improved by the use of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems, reducing the time of diagnosis and reducing the inter and intra-observer variability. The advances in computing have brought this type of system closer to reality. However, datasets of Histopathological Images (HI) from biopsies are quite small and unbalanced what makes difficult to use modern machine learning techniques such as deep learning. In this paper we propose a compact architecture based on texture filters that has fewer parameters than traditiona…
School of Mathematics (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学（珠海）数学学院）
Rapid diagnosis of gastric cancer is a great challenge for clinical doctors. Dramatic progress of computer vision on gastric cancer has been made recently and this review focuses on advances during the past five years. Different methods for data generation and augmentation are presented, and various approaches to extract discriminative features compared and evaluated. Classification and segmentation techniques are carefully discussed for assisting more precise diagnosis and timely treatment. For classification, various methods have been developed to better proceed specific images, such as imag…
Worldwide, prostate cancer is one of the main cancers affecting men. The final diagnosis of prostate cancer is based on the visual detection of Gleason patterns in prostate biopsy by pathologists. Computer-aided-diagnosis systems allow to delineate and classify the cancerous patterns in the tissue via computer-vision algorithms in order to support the physicians' task. The methodological core of this work is a U-Net convolutional neural network for image segmentation modified with residual blocks able to segment cancerous tissue according to the full Gleason system. This model outperforms othe…
University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM)（蒙特利尔大学医院研究中心）；University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；California Nanosystems Institute（加州纳米系统研究所）
It is known that changes in the mechanical properties of tissues are associated with the onset and progression of certain diseases. Ultrasound elastography is a technique to characterize tissue stiffness using ultrasound imaging either by measuring tissue strain using quasi-static elastography or natural organ pulsation elastography, or by tracing a propagated shear wave induced by a source or a natural vibration using dynamic elastography. In recent years, deep learning has begun to emerge in ultrasound elastography research. In this review, several common deep learning frameworks in the comp…
Radboud University Medical Center（拉德堡德大学医学中心）；Ospedale Cannizzaro（坎尼扎罗医院）；Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum（莱顿大学医学中心）；University of Bayreuth（拜罗伊特大学）；Linköping University（林雪平大学）
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can potentially support histopathologists in the diagnosis of a broad spectrum of cancer types. In colorectal cancer (CRC), AI can alleviate the laborious task of characterization and reporting on resected biopsies, including polyps, the numbers of which are increasing as a result of CRC population screening programs, ongoing in many countries all around the globe. Here, we present an approach to address two major challenges in automated assessment of CRC histopathology whole-slide images. First, we present an AI-based method to segment multiple tissue compartments…
DiagSet: a dataset for prostate cancer histopathological image classification
Diagnostyka Consilio Sp. z o.o.（诊断康西利奥有限公司）；AGH University of Science and Technology（AGH科技大学）；Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University（安德烈·弗赖奇·莫德热夫斯基克拉科夫大学）
Heidelberg University Hospital（海德堡大学医院）；German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)（德国癌症研究中心）；HIDSS4Health - Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health（亥姆霍兹健康信息与数据科学学校）；Heidelberg University（海德堡大学）；University Hospital Essen（埃森大学医院）；University Duisburg-Essen（杜伊斯堡-埃森大学）
Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality and critical illness worldwide. While robust biomarkers for early diagnosis are still missing, recent work indicates that hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has the potential to overcome this bottleneck by monitoring microcirculatory alterations. Automated machine learning-based diagnosis of sepsis based on HSI data, however, has not been explored to date. Given this gap in the literature, we leveraged an existing data set to (1) investigate whether HSI-based automated diagnosis of sepsis is possible and (2) put forth a list of possible confounders relevant for …
Imperial College London（伦敦帝国学院）；King’s College London（伦敦国王学院）；FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg（埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）
Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in prenatal diagnosis and to assess early brain development. Accurate segmentation of the different brain tissues is a vital step in several brain analysis tasks, such as cortical surface reconstruction and tissue thickness measurements. Fetal MRI scans, however, are prone to motion artifacts that can affect the correctness of both manual and automatic segmentation techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel network structure that can simultaneously generate conditional atlases and predict brain tissue segmentation, called CAS-Net. The condition…
During the last decade, the digitization of pathology has gained considerable momentum. Digital pathology offers many advantages including more efficient workflows, easier collaboration as well as a powerful venue for telepathology. At the same time, applying Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) on Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has received substantial attention as a direct result of the digitization. The first step in any image analysis is to extract the tissue. Hence, background removal is an essential prerequisite for efficient and accurate results for many algorithms. In spite of the obvious discrim…
Isfahan University of Technology（伊斯法罕理工大学）；McMaster University（麦克马斯特大学）
Digital pathology is one of the most significant developments in modern medicine. Pathological examinations are the gold standard of medical protocols and play a fundamental role in diagnosis. Recently, with the advent of digital scanners, tissue histopathology slides can now be digitized and stored as digital images. As a result, digitized histopathological tissues can be used in computer-aided image analysis programs and machine learning techniques. Detection and segmentation of nuclei are some of the essential steps in the diagnosis of cancers. Recently, deep learning has been used for nucl…
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital（广东省人民医院）；Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences（广东省医学科学院）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University（广东技术师范大学）
Histopathological tissue classification is a fundamental task in pathomics cancer research. Precisely differentiating different tissue types is a benefit for the downstream researches, like cancer diagnosis, prognosis and etc. Existing works mostly leverage the popular classification backbones in computer vision to achieve histopathological tissue classification. In this paper, we proposed a super lightweight plug-and-play module, named Pyramidal Deep-Broad Learning (PDBL), for any well-trained classification backbone to further improve the classification performance without a re-training burd…
Correct treatment of urothelial carcinoma patients is dependent on accurate grading and staging of the cancer tumour. This is determined manually by a pathologist by examining the histological whole-slide images (WSI). The large size of these images makes this a time-consuming and challenging task. The WSI contain a variety of tissue types, and a method for defining diagnostic relevant regions would have several advantages for visualization as well as further input to automated diagnosis systems. We propose an automatic multiscale method for classification of tiles from WSI of urothelial carci…
FECT: Classification of Breast Cancer Pathological Images Based on Fusion Features
Institute of Biopharmaceutical and Health Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School（清华深圳国际研究生院生物制药与健康工程研究所）；School of Medicine, Nankai University（南开大学医学院）
Ultrasound attenuation is caused by absorption and scattering in tissue and is thus a function of tissue composition, hence its imaging offers great potential for screening and differential diagnosis. In this paper we propose a novel method that allows to reconstruct spatial attenuation distribution in tissue based on computed tomography, using reflections from a passive acoustic reflector. This requires a standard ultrasound transducer operating in pulse-echo mode, thus it can be implemented on conventional ultrasound systems with minor modifications. We use calibration with water measurement…
