Combined expert-in-the-loop-random forest multiclass segmentation U-net based artificial intelligence model: evaluation of non-small cell lung cancer in fibrotic and non-fibrotic microenvironments.

Journal: Journal of translational medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a key role in lung cancer initiation, proliferation, invasion, and metastasis. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods could potentially accelerate TME analysis. The aims of this study were to (1) assess the feasibility of using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained whole slide images (WSI) to develop an AI model for evaluating the TME and (2) to characterize the TME of adenocarcinoma (ADCA) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCCA) in fibrotic and non-fibrotic lung.

Authors

  • Anjali Saqi
    Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York.
  • Yucheng Liu
    Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
  • Michelle Garlin Politis
    Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY, VC14-215, 10032, USA.
  • Mary Salvatore
    Department of Radiology and.
  • Sachin Jambawalikar
    Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.