scholarly journals Automatic Classification of Prostate Cancer Gleason Scores from Digitized Whole Slide Tissue Biopsies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongming Xu ◽  
Sunho Park ◽  
Tae Hyun Hwang

AbstractHistological Gleason grading of tumor patterns is one of the most powerful prognostic predictors in prostate cancer. However, manual analysis and grading performed by pathologists are typically subjective and time-consuming. In this paper, we propose an automatic technique for Gleason grading of prostate cancer from H&E stained whole slide biopsy images using a set of novel completed and statistical local bi-nary pattern (CSLBP) descriptors. First the technique divides the whole slide image into a set of small image tiles, where salient tumor tiles with high nuclei densities are selected for analysis. The CSLBP texture features that encode pixel intensity variations from circularly surrounding neighborhoods are then extracted from salient image tiles to characterize different Gleason patterns. Finally, CSLBP texture features computed from all tiles are integrated and utilized by the multi-class support vector machine (SVM) that assigns patient biopsy with different Gleason score of 6, 7 or ≥8. Experiments have been performed on 312 different patient cases selected from the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) and have achieved more than 79% classification accuracies, which is superior to state-of-the-art textural descriptors for prostate cancer Gleason grading.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Totland Carm ◽  
Andreas M. Hoff ◽  
Anne Cathrine Bakken ◽  
Ulrika Axcrona ◽  
Karol Axcrona ◽  
...  

Abstract Prostate cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease and typically multiple distinct cancer foci are present at primary diagnosis. Molecular classification of prostate cancer can potentially aid the precision of diagnosis and treatment. A promising genomic classifier was published by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), successfully classifying 74% of primary prostate cancers into seven groups based on one cancer sample per patient. Here, we explore the clinical usefulness of this classification by testing the classifier’s performance in a multifocal context. We analyzed 106 cancer samples from 85 distinct cancer foci within 39 patients. By somatic mutation data from whole-exome sequencing and targeted qualitative and quantitative gene expression assays, 31% of the patients were uniquely classified into one of the seven TCGA classes. Further, different samples from the same focus had conflicting classification in 12% of the foci. In conclusion, the level of both intra- and interfocal heterogeneity is extensive and must be taken into consideration in the development of clinically useful molecular classification of primary prostate cancer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Peng Qiao ◽  
Di Zhang ◽  
Song Zeng ◽  
Yicun Wang ◽  
Biao Wang ◽  
...  

Aim: This study aims to identify novel marker to predict biochemical recurrence (BCR) in prostate cancer patients after radical prostatectomy with negative surgical margin. Materials & methods: The Cancer Genome Atlas database, Gene Expression Omnibus database and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia database were employed. The ensemble support vector machine-recursive feature elimination method was performed to select crucial gene for BCR. Results: We identified MYLK as a novel and independent biomarker for BCR in The Cancer Genome Atlas training cohort and confirmed in four independent Gene Expression Omnibus validation cohorts. Multi-omic analysis suggested that MYLK was a DNA methylation-driven gene. Additionally, MYLK had significant positive correlations with immune infiltrations. Conclusion: MYLK was identified and validated as a novel, robust and independent biomarker for BCR in prostate cancer.


Open Medicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 459-463
Author(s):  
Arash Hooshmand

Abstract A new logistic regression-based method to distinguish between cancerous and noncancerous RNA genomic data is developed and tested with 100% precision on 595 healthy and cancerous prostate samples. A logistic regression system is developed and trained using whole-exome sequencing data at a high-level, i.e., normalized quantification of RNAs obtained from 495 prostate cancer samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas and 100 healthy samples from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project. We could show that both sensitivity and specificity of the method in the classification of cancerous and noncancerous cells are perfectly 100%.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongming Xu ◽  
Tae Hyun Hwang

Computerized whole slide image analysis is important for assisting pathologists in cancer grading and predicting patient clinical outcomes. However, it is challenging to analyze whole slide image (WSI) at cellular level due to its huge size and nuclear variations. For efficient WSI analysis, this paper presents a general texture descriptor, statistical local binary patterns (SLBP), which is applied to prostate cancer Gleason score prediction from WSI. Unlike traditional local binary patterns (LBP) and many its variants, the presented SLBP encodes local texture patterns via analyzing both median and standard deviation over a regional sampling scheme, so that it can capture more micro- and macro-structure information in the image. Experiments on Gleason score prediction have been performed on 317 different patient cases selected from the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) dataset. The presented SLBP descriptor provides over 80% accuracy on two class (grade <=7 vs grade >=8) distinction, which is superior to traditional texture descriptors such as histogram, Haralick and other state-of-art LBP variants.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 6091
Author(s):  
Kristina Daniunaite ◽  
Arnas Bakavicius ◽  
Kristina Zukauskaite ◽  
Ieva Rauluseviciute ◽  
Juozas Rimantas Lazutka ◽  
...  

The molecular diversity of prostate cancer (PCa) has been demonstrated by recent genome-wide studies, proposing a significant number of different molecular markers. However, only a few of them have been transferred into clinical practice so far. The present study aimed to identify and validate novel DNA methylation biomarkers for PCa diagnosis and prognosis. Microarray-based methylome data of well-characterized cancerous and noncancerous prostate tissue (NPT) pairs was used for the initial screening. Ten protein-coding genes were selected for validation in a set of 151 PCa, 51 NPT, as well as 17 benign prostatic hyperplasia samples. The Prostate Cancer Dataset (PRAD) of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) was utilized for independent validation of our findings. Methylation frequencies of ADAMTS12, CCDC181, FILIP1L, NAALAD2, PRKCB, and ZMIZ1 were up to 91% in our study. PCa specific methylation of ADAMTS12, CCDC181, NAALAD2, and PRKCB was demonstrated by qualitative and quantitative means (all p < 0.05). In agreement with PRAD, promoter methylation of these four genes was associated with the transcript down-regulation in the Lithuanian cohort (all p < 0.05). Methylation of ADAMTS12, NAALAD2, and PRKCB was independently predictive for biochemical disease recurrence, while NAALAD2 and PRKCB increased the prognostic power of multivariate models (all p < 0.01). The present study identified methylation of ADAMTS12, NAALAD2, and PRKCB as novel diagnostic and prognostic PCa biomarkers that might guide treatment decisions in clinical practice.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caio B. Wetterich ◽  
Ratnesh Kumar ◽  
Sindhuja Sankaran ◽  
José Belasque Junior ◽  
Reza Ehsani ◽  
...  

The overall objective of this work was to develop and evaluate computer vision and machine learning technique for classification of Huanglongbing-(HLB)-infected and healthy leaves using fluorescence imaging spectroscopy. The fluorescence images were segmented using normalized graph cut, and texture features were extracted from the segmented images using cooccurrence matrix. The extracted features were used as an input into the classifier, support vector machine (SVM). The classification results were evaluated based on classification accuracies and number of false positives and false negatives. The results indicated that the SVM could classify HLB-infected leaf fluorescence intensities with up to 90% classification accuracy. Though the fluorescence intensities from leaves collected in Brazil and the USA were different, the method shows potential for detecting HLB.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 1497-1504
Author(s):  
Zhenjie Wang ◽  
Ke Sun ◽  
Lihui Du ◽  
Jian Yuan ◽  
Kang Tu ◽  
...  

Abstract. In this study, computer vision was used for the identification and classification of fungi on moldy paddy. To develop a rapid and efficient method for the classification of common fungal species found in stored paddy, computer vision was used to acquire images of individual colonies of growing fungi for three consecutive days. After image processing, the color, shape, and texture features were acquired and used in a subsequent discriminant analysis. Both linear (i.e., linear discriminant analysis and partial least squares discriminant analysis) and nonlinear (i.e., random forest and support vector machine [SVM]) pattern recognition models were employed for the classification of fungal colonies, and the results were compared. The results indicate that when using all of the features for three consecutive days, the performance of the nonlinear tools was superior to that of the linear tools, especially in the case of the SVM models, which achieved an accuracy of 100% on the calibration sets and an accuracy of 93.2% to 97.6% on the prediction sets. After sequential selection of projection algorithm, ten common features were selected for building the classification models. The results showed that the SVM model achieved an overall accuracy of 95.6%, 98.3%, and 99.0% on the prediction sets on days 2, 3, and 4, respectively. This work demonstrated that computer vision with several features is suitable for the identification and classification of fungi on moldy paddy based on the form of the individual colonies at an early growth stage during paddy storage. Keywords: Classification, Computer vision, Fungal colony, Feature selection, SVM.


Author(s):  
Shiv Ram Dubey ◽  
Anand Singh Jalal

Diseases in fruit cause devastating problems in economic losses and production in the agricultural industry worldwide. In this chapter, a method to detect and classify fruit diseases automatically is proposed and experimentally validated. The image processing-based proposed approach is composed of the following main steps: in the first step K-Means clustering technique is used for the defect segmentation, in the second step some color and texture features are extracted from the segmented defected part, and finally diseases are classified into one of the classes by using a multi-class Support Vector Machine. The authors have considered diseases of apple as a test case and evaluated the approach for three types of apple diseases, namely apple scab, apple blotch, and apple rot, along with normal apples. The experimental results express that the proposed solution can significantly support accurate detection and automatic classification of fruit diseases. The classification accuracy for the proposed approach is achieved up to 93% using textural information and multi-class support vector machine.


Author(s):  
N. Hema Rajini ◽  
R. Bhavani

Computed tomography images are widely used in the diagnosis of ischemic stroke because of its faster acquisition and compatibility with most life support devices. This chapter presents a new approach to automated detection of ischemic stroke using k-means clustering technique which separates the lesion region from healthy tissues and classification of ischemic stroke using texture features. The proposed method has five stages, pre-processing, tracing midline of the brain, extraction of texture features and feature selection, classification and segmentation. In the first stage noise is suppressed using a median filtering and skull bone components of the images are removed. In the second stage, midline shift of the brain is calculated. In the third stage, fourteen texture features are extracted and optimal features are selected using genetic algorithm. In the fourth stage, support vector machine, artificial neural network and decision tree classifiers have been used. Finally, the ischemic stroke region is extracted by using k-means clustering technique.


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