Mitosis Detection, Fast and Slow: Robust and Efficient Detection of Mitotic Figures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12587v2
• Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:38:03 GMT
• Title: Mitosis Detection, Fast and Slow: Robust and Efficient Detection of Mitotic Figures
• Abstract summary: We propose a robust and efficient two-stage mitosis detection framework, which comprises mitosis candidate segmentation and candidate refinement stages. EUNet can precisely segment candidates at a lower resolution to considerably speed up candidate detection. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and generalizability of the proposed model on the three largest publicly available mitosis datasets.
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• Abstract: Counting of mitotic figures is a fundamental step in grading and prognostication of several cancers. However, manual mitosis counting is tedious and time-consuming. In addition, variation in the appearance of mitotic figures causes a high degree of discordance among pathologists. With advances in deep learning models, several automatic mitosis detection algorithms have been proposed but they are sensitive to {\em domain shift} often seen in histology images. We propose a robust and efficient two-stage mitosis detection framework, which comprises mitosis candidate segmentation ({\em Detecting Fast}) and candidate refinement ({\em Detecting Slow}) stages. The proposed candidate segmentation model, termed \textit{EUNet}, is fast and accurate due to its architectural design. EUNet can precisely segment candidates at a lower resolution to considerably speed up candidate detection. Candidates are then refined using a deeper classifier network, EfficientNet-B7, in the second stage. We make sure both stages are robust against domain shift by incorporating domain generalization methods. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and generalizability of the proposed model on the three largest publicly available mitosis datasets, winning the two mitosis domain generalization challenge contests (MIDOG21 and MIDOG22). Finally, we showcase the utility of the proposed algorithm by processing the TCGA breast cancer cohort (1,125 whole-slide images) to generate and release a repository of more than 620K mitotic figures.

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