Pixel-to-Pixel Learning With Weak Supervision for Single-Stage Nucleus Recognition in Ki67 Images.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Nucleus recognition is a critical yet challenging step in histopathology image analysis, for example, in Ki67 immunohistochemistry stained images. Although many automated methods have been proposed, most use a multi-stage processing pipeline to categorize nuclei, leading to cumbersome, low-throughput, and error-prone assessments. To address this issue, we propose a novel deep fully convolutional network for single-stage nucleus recognition.

Authors

  • Fuyong Xing
  • Toby C Cornish
  • Tell Bennett
  • Debashis Ghosh
    Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, USA.
  • Lin Yang
    National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, Key Laboratory of Diabetes Immunology (Central South University), Ministry of Education, and Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.