Robust Histopathology Image Analysis: To Label or to Synthesize?

Detection, segmentation and classification of nuclei are fundamental analysis operations in digital pathology. Existing state-of-the-art approaches demand extensive amount of supervised training data from pathologists and may still perform poorly in images from unseen tissue types. We propose an uns...

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Vydané v:Proceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Online) Ročník 2019; s. 8525 - 8534
Hlavní autori: Hou, Le, Agarwal, Ayush, Samaras, Dimitris, Kurc, Tahsin M., Gupta, Rajarsi R., Saltz, Joel H.
Médium: Konferenčný príspevok.. Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States IEEE 01.06.2019
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Shrnutí:Detection, segmentation and classification of nuclei are fundamental analysis operations in digital pathology. Existing state-of-the-art approaches demand extensive amount of supervised training data from pathologists and may still perform poorly in images from unseen tissue types. We propose an unsupervised approach for histopathology image segmentation that synthesizes heterogeneous sets of training image patches, of every tissue type. Although our synthetic patches are not always of high quality, we harness the motley crew of generated samples through a generally applicable importance sampling method. This proposed approach, for the first time, re-weighs the training loss over synthetic data so that the ideal (unbiased) generalization loss over the true data distribution is minimized. This enables us to use a random polygon generator to synthesize approximate cellular structures (i.e., nuclear masks) for which no real examples are given in many tissue types, and hence, GAN-based methods are not suited. In addition, we propose a hybrid synthesis pipeline that utilizes textures in real histopathology patches and GAN models, to tackle heterogeneity in tissue textures. Compared with existing state-of-the-art supervised models, our approach generalizes significantly better on cancer types without training data. Even in cancer types with training data, our approach achieves the same performance without supervision cost. We release code and segmentation results on over 5000 Whole Slide Images (WSI) in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) repository, a dataset that would be orders of magnitude larger than what is available today.
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DOI:10.1109/CVPR.2019.00873