Enabling Collagen Quantification on HE-stained Slides Through Stain Deconvolution and Restained HE-HES

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Autori principali: Balezo, Guillaume, Bertram, Christof A., Tilmant, Cyprien, Petit, Stéphanie, Hadj, Saima Ben, Fick, Rutger H. J.
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author Balezo, Guillaume
Bertram, Christof A.
Tilmant, Cyprien
Petit, Stéphanie
Hadj, Saima Ben
Fick, Rutger H. J.
author_facet Balezo, Guillaume
Bertram, Christof A.
Tilmant, Cyprien
Petit, Stéphanie
Hadj, Saima Ben
Fick, Rutger H. J.
contents In histology, the presence of collagen in the extra-cellular matrix has both diagnostic and prognostic value for cancer malignancy, and can be highlighted by adding Saffron (S) to a routine Hematoxylin and Eosin (HE) staining. However, Saffron is not usually added because of the additional cost and because pathologists are accustomed to HE, with the exception of France-based laboratories. In this paper, we show that it is possible to quantify the collagen content from the HE image alone and to digitally create an HES image. To do so, we trained a UNet to predict the Saffron densities from HE images. We created a dataset of registered, restained HE-HES slides and we extracted the Saffron concentrations as ground truth using stain deconvolution on the HES images. Our model reached a Mean Absolute Error of 0.0668 $\pm$ 0.0002 (Saffron values between 0 and 1) on a 3-fold testing set. We hope our approach can aid in improving the clinical workflow while reducing reagent costs for laboratories.
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spellingShingle Enabling Collagen Quantification on HE-stained Slides Through Stain Deconvolution and Restained HE-HES
Balezo, Guillaume
Bertram, Christof A.
Tilmant, Cyprien
Petit, Stéphanie
Hadj, Saima Ben
Fick, Rutger H. J.
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In histology, the presence of collagen in the extra-cellular matrix has both diagnostic and prognostic value for cancer malignancy, and can be highlighted by adding Saffron (S) to a routine Hematoxylin and Eosin (HE) staining. However, Saffron is not usually added because of the additional cost and because pathologists are accustomed to HE, with the exception of France-based laboratories. In this paper, we show that it is possible to quantify the collagen content from the HE image alone and to digitally create an HES image. To do so, we trained a UNet to predict the Saffron densities from HE images. We created a dataset of registered, restained HE-HES slides and we extracted the Saffron concentrations as ground truth using stain deconvolution on the HES images. Our model reached a Mean Absolute Error of 0.0668 $\pm$ 0.0002 (Saffron values between 0 and 1) on a 3-fold testing set. We hope our approach can aid in improving the clinical workflow while reducing reagent costs for laboratories.
title Enabling Collagen Quantification on HE-stained Slides Through Stain Deconvolution and Restained HE-HES
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09566