A Comparative Study of U-Net Topologies for Background Removal in Histopathology Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06531v1
• Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 16:41:44 GMT
• Title: A Comparative Study of U-Net Topologies for Background Removal in Histopathology Images
• Authors: Abtin Riasatian, Maral Rasoolijaberi, Morteza Babaei, H.R. Tizhoosh
• Abstract summary: We perform experiments on U-Net architecture with different network backbones to remove the background as well as artifacts from Whole Slide Images. We trained and evaluated the network on a manually labeled subset of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset.
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• Abstract: During the last decade, the digitization of pathology has gained considerable momentum. Digital pathology offers many advantages including more efficient workflows, easier collaboration as well as a powerful venue for telepathology. At the same time, applying Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) on Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has received substantial attention as a direct result of the digitization. The first step in any image analysis is to extract the tissue. Hence, background removal is an essential prerequisite for efficient and accurate results for many algorithms. In spite of the obvious discrimination for human operators, the identification of tissue regions in WSIs could be challenging for computers, mainly due to the existence of color variations and artifacts. Moreover, some cases such as alveolar tissue types, fatty tissues, and tissues with poor staining are difficult to detect. In this paper, we perform experiments on U-Net architecture with different network backbones (different topologies) to remove the background as well as artifacts from WSIs in order to extract the tissue regions. We compare a wide range of backbone networks including MobileNet, VGG16, EfficientNet-B3, ResNet50, ResNext101 and DenseNet121. We trained and evaluated the network on a manually labeled subset of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Dataset. EfficientNet-B3 and MobileNet by almost 99% sensitivity and specificity reached the best results.

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