Efficient Classification of Histopathology Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13720v1
• Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 17:41:04 GMT
• Title: Efficient Classification of Histopathology Images
• Authors: Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed, Mary-Anne Hartley, Gianfranco Doretto, Donald A. Adjeroh,
• Abstract summary: We use images with annotated tumor regions to identify a set of tumor patches and a set of benign patches in a cancerous slide. This creates an important problem during patch-level classification, where the majority of patches from an image labeled as 'cancerous' are actually tumor-free.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: This work addresses how to efficiently classify challenging histopathology images, such as gigapixel whole-slide images for cancer diagnostics with image-level annotation. We use images with annotated tumor regions to identify a set of tumor patches and a set of benign patches in a cancerous slide. Due to the variable nature of region of interest the tumor positive regions may refer to an extreme minority of the pixels. This creates an important problem during patch-level classification, where the majority of patches from an image labeled as 'cancerous' are actually tumor-free. This problem is different from semantic segmentation which associates a label to every pixel in an image, because after patch extraction we are only dealing with patch-level labels.Most existing approaches address the data imbalance issue by mitigating the data shortage in minority classes in order to prevent the model from being dominated by the majority classes. These methods include data re-sampling, loss re-weighting, margin modification, and data augmentation. In this work, we mitigate the patch-level class imbalance problem by taking a divide-and-conquer approach. First, we partition the data into sub-groups, and define three separate classification sub-problems based on these data partitions. Then, using an information-theoretic cluster-based sampling of deep image patch features, we sample discriminative patches from the sub-groups. Using these sampled patches, we build corresponding deep models to solve the new classification sub-problems. Finally, we integrate information learned from the respective models to make a final decision on the patches. Our result shows that the proposed approach can perform competitively using a very low percentage of the available patches in a given whole-slide image.

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