Deep-Learning for Classification of Colorectal Polyps on Whole-Slide Images

Bruno Korbar; Andrea M. Olofson; Allen P. Miraflor; Katherine M. Nicka; Matthew A. Suriawinata; Lorenzo Torresani; Arief A. Suriawinata; Saeed Hassanpour

arXiv · 1703.01550

Deep-Learning for Classification of Colorectal Polyps on Whole-Slide Images

Bruno Korbar·Andrea M. Olofson·Allen P. Miraflor·Katherine M. Nicka·Matthew A. Suriawinata·Lorenzo Torresani·Arief A. Suriawinata·Saeed Hassanpour

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Histopathological characterization of colorectal polyps is an important principle for determining the risk of colorectal cancer and future rates of surveillance for patients. This characterization is time-intensive, requires years of specialized training, and suffers from significant inter-observer and intra-observer variability. In this work, we built an automatic image-understanding method that can accurately classify different types of colorectal polyps in whole-slide histology images to help pathologists with histopathological characterization and diagnosis of colorectal polyps. The proposed image-understanding method is based on deep-learning techniques, which rely on numerous levels of abstraction for data representation and have shown state-of-the-art results for various image analysis tasks. Our image-understanding method covers all five polyp types (hyperplastic polyp, sessile serrated polyp, traditional serrated adenoma, tubular adenoma, and tubulovillous/villous adenoma) that are included in the US multi-society task force guidelines for colorectal cancer risk assessment and surveillance, and encompasses the most common occurrences of colorectal polyps. Our evaluation on 239 independent test samples shows our proposed method can identify the types of colorectal polyps in whole-slide images with a high efficacy (accuracy: 93.0%, precision: 89.7%, recall: 88.3%, F1 score: 88.8%). The presented method in this paper can reduce the cognitive burden on pathologists and improve their accuracy and efficiency in histopathological characterization of colorectal polyps, and in subsequent risk assessment and follow-up recommendations.

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Bruno Korbar, Andrea M. Olofson, Allen P. Miraflor, Katherine M. Nicka, Matthew A. Suriawinata, Lorenzo Torresani, Arief A. Suriawinata, Saeed Hassanpour. 2017-04-12. Deep-Learning for Classification of Colorectal Polyps on Whole-Slide Images. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01550

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