Deep learning-based tumor microenvironment analysis in colon adenocarcinoma histopathological whole-slide images.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Colon cancer is a fatal disease, and a comprehensive understanding of the tumor microenvironment (TME) could lead to better risk stratification, prognosis prediction, and therapy management. In this paper, we focused on the automatic evaluation of TME in giga-pixel digital histopathology whole-slide images.

Authors

  • Yiping Jiao
    Shool of Automation, Southeast University, 2nd Sipailou Road, Nanjing, China. Electronic address: ping@seu.edu.cn.
  • Junhong Li
    Luoyang Central Hospital affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Luoyang, China.
  • Chenqi Qian
    Jiangsu Chunyu Education Group CO., 88th Zhongshan North Road, Nanjing, China.
  • Shumin Fei
    School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, PR China.