Uncovering additional predictors of urothelial carcinoma from voided urothelial cell clusters through a deep learning-based image preprocessing technique.
Journal:
Cancer cytopathology
PMID:
35997513
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Urine cytology is commonly used as a screening test for high-grade urothelial carcinoma for patients with risk factors or hematuria and is an essential step in longitudinal monitoring of patients with previous bladder cancer history. However, the semisubjective nature of current reporting systems for urine cytology (e.g., The Paris System) can hamper reproducibility. For instance, the incorporation of urothelial cell clusters into the classification schema is still an item of debate and perplexity among expert cytopathologists because several previous works have disputed their diagnostic relevance.