Dysplasia Grading of Colorectal Polyps Through Convolutional Neural Network Analysis of Whole Slide Images

Daniele Perlo*, Enzo Tartaglione, Luca Bertero, Paola Cassoni, Marco Grangetto

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Abstract

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. For this reason, histo-pathological characterization of colorectal polyps is the major instrument for the pathologist in order to infer the actual risk for cancer and to guide further follow-up. Colorectal polyps diagnosis includes the evaluation of the polyp type, and more importantly, the grade of dysplasia. This latter evaluation represents a critical step for the clinical follow-up. The proposed deep learning-based classification pipeline is based on state-of-the-art convolutional neural network, trained using proper countermeasures to tackle WSI high resolution and very imbalanced dataset. The experimental results show that one can successfully classify adenomas dysplasia grade with 70% accuracy, which is in line with the pathologists’ concordance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2021 International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, MICAD 2021 - Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis
EditorsRuidan Su, Yu-Dong Zhang, Han Liu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages325-334
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811638794
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, MICAD 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 25 Mar 202126 Mar 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume784 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, MICAD 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period25/03/2126/03/21

Keywords

  • Colorectal adenomas
  • Colorectal polyps
  • Deep learning
  • Digital pathology
  • Multi resolution

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