TY - GEN
T1 - Breast cancer histopathology image analysis pipeline for tumor purity estimation
AU - Azimi, Vahid
AU - Chang, Young Hwan
AU - Thibault, Guillaume
AU - Smith, Jaclyn
AU - Tsujikawa, Takahiro
AU - Kukull, Benjamin
AU - Jensen, Bradden
AU - Corless, Christopher
AU - Margolin, Adam
AU - Gray, Joe W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/6/15
Y1 - 2017/6/15
N2 - The translation of genomic sequencing technology to the clinic has greatly advanced personalized medicine. However, the presence of normal cells in tumors is a confounding factor in genome sequence analysis. Tumor purity, or the percentage of cancerous cells in whole tissue section, is a correction factor that can be used to improve the clinical utility of genomic sequencing. Currently, tumor purity is estimated visually by expert pathologists; however, it has been shown that there exist vast inter-observer discrepancies in tumor purity scoring. In this paper, we propose a quantitative image analysis pipeline for tumor purity estimation and provide a systematic comparison between pathologists' scores and our image-based tumor purity estimation.
AB - The translation of genomic sequencing technology to the clinic has greatly advanced personalized medicine. However, the presence of normal cells in tumors is a confounding factor in genome sequence analysis. Tumor purity, or the percentage of cancerous cells in whole tissue section, is a correction factor that can be used to improve the clinical utility of genomic sequencing. Currently, tumor purity is estimated visually by expert pathologists; however, it has been shown that there exist vast inter-observer discrepancies in tumor purity scoring. In this paper, we propose a quantitative image analysis pipeline for tumor purity estimation and provide a systematic comparison between pathologists' scores and our image-based tumor purity estimation.
KW - Histopathology
KW - Quantitative Image Analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85023207013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950717
DO - 10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950717
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85023207013
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
SP - 1137
EP - 1140
BT - 2017 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2017
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 14th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2017
Y2 - 18 April 2017 through 21 April 2017
ER -