Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Colorectal Cancer on Whole Slide Images

2021-03-27
Temena, Mehmet Arda
Isildak, Ulas
Acar, Ahmet
Diagnosis of cancer is typically performed by medical pathologist visually inspecting hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained whole slide images. Although the early detection of various cancer types is crucial for a successful treatment, it is a challenging work due to inter- and intra-personal variability and it may often result in a disagreement between pathologists. Visual inspection of medical specimen is a well- established method for cancer diagnosis, but digital transformation is now inevitable fact, whereby conventional microscopic examinations with bareeyes have been replaced by artificial learning (AI)- based digital pathology applications in last years. For this reason, AI-driven solutions are now helping to operate on biospecimen images mostly to assist pathologists. Moreover, deep learning-based diagnosis systems have showed a potential for reducing the cost and improving the accuracy. In this work, we aimed to develop a automated pipeline for colorectal cancer diagnoses by applying Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models to classify whole slide images in two classes, carcinoma and non-carcinoma. We included several previously developed deep learning classifiers in our pipeline, where a data set with more than 300 annotated and accessible whole-slide images for colorectal cancer will be used to evaluate model performances.
13th CONGRESS of MEDICAL INFORMATICS

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M. A. Temena, U. Isildak, and A. Acar, “Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Colorectal Cancer on Whole Slide Images,” presented at the 13th CONGRESS of MEDICAL INFORMATICS, Ankara, Türkiye, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://turkmia.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TURKMIA2021-Proceedings.pdf.