LiverNet: efficient and robust deep learning model for automatic diagnosis of sub-types of liver hepatocellular carcinoma cancer from H&E stained liver histopathology images.

Journal: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Published Date:

Abstract

PURPOSE: Liver cancer is one of the most common types of cancers in Asia with a high mortality rate. A common method for liver cancer diagnosis is the manual examination of histopathology images. Due to its laborious nature, we focus on alternate deep learning methods for automatic diagnosis, providing significant advantages over manual methods. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning framework to perform multi-class cancer classification of liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumor histopathology images which shows improvements in inference speed and classification quality over other competitive methods.

Authors

  • Anirudh Ashok Aatresh
    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangaluru, Karnataka, 575025, India.
  • Kumar Alabhya
    Department of E & C Engg., National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangaluru, 575025, Karnataka, India.
  • Shyam Lal
    Department of E & C Engg., National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangaluru, 575025, Karnataka, India. Electronic address: shyam.mtec@gmail.com.
  • Jyoti Kini
    Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India; Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Electronic address: kinijyoti@gmail.com.
  • P U Prakash Saxena
    Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.