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Spatiality Sensitive Learning for Cancer Metastasis Detection in Whole-Slide Images

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MATHEMATICS
Volume 10, Issue 15, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/math10152657

Keywords

deep learning; convolutional neural network; long short-term memory; spatial constraint; cancer metastasis detection

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [62002255]
  2. Shanxi Scholarship Council of China [2021-038]
  3. Applied Basic Research Project of Shanxi Province [20210302123130]

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This study proposes an effective spatially sensitive learning framework for cancer metastasis detection in whole-slide images, improving prediction consistency through a novel spatial loss function and achieving high precision and recall. By learning the spatial relationships between adjacent image patches, it provides more accurate detection results and is beneficial for early diagnosis of cancer metastasis.
Metastasis detection in lymph nodes via microscopic examination of histopathological images is one of the most crucial diagnostic procedures for breast cancer staging. The manual analysis is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming because of complexities and diversities of histopathology images. Deep learning has been utilized in automatic cancer metastasis detection in recent years. Due to the huge size of whole-slide images, most existing approaches split each image into smaller patches and simply treat these patches independently, which ignores the spatial correlations among them. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an effective spatially sensitive learning framework for cancer metastasis detection in whole-slide images. Moreover, a novel spatial loss function is designed to ensure the consistency of prediction over neighboring patches. Specifically, through incorporating long short-term memory and spatial loss constraint on top of a convolutional neural network feature extractor, the proposed method can effectively learn both the appearance of each patch and spatial relationships between adjacent image patches. With the standard back-propagation algorithm, the whole framework can be trained in an end-to-end way. Finally, the regions with high tumor probability in the resulting probability map are the metastasis locations. Extensive experiments on the benchmark Camelyon 2016 Grand Challenge dataset show the effectiveness of the proposed approach with respect to state-of-the-art competitors. The obtained precision, recall, and balanced accuracy are 0.9565, 0.9167, and 0.9458, respectively. It is also demonstrated that the proposed approach can provide more accurate detection results and is helpful for early diagnosis of cancer metastasis.

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