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Main Authors: Davidson, Andrew, Morley-Bunker, Arthur, Wiggins, George, Walker, Logan, Harris, Gavin, Mukundan, Ramakrishnan, Investigators, kConFab
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15886
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author Davidson, Andrew
Morley-Bunker, Arthur
Wiggins, George
Walker, Logan
Harris, Gavin
Mukundan, Ramakrishnan
Investigators, kConFab
author_facet Davidson, Andrew
Morley-Bunker, Arthur
Wiggins, George
Walker, Logan
Harris, Gavin
Mukundan, Ramakrishnan
Investigators, kConFab
contents Chromogenic RNAscope dye and haematoxylin staining of cancer tissue facilitates diagnosis of the cancer type and subsequent treatment, and fits well into existing pathology workflows. However, manual quantification of the RNAscope transcripts (dots), which signify gene expression, is prohibitively time consuming. In addition, there is a lack of verified supporting methods for quantification and analysis. This paper investigates the usefulness of grey level texture features for automatically segmenting and classifying the positions of RNAscope transcripts from breast cancer tissue. Feature analysis showed that a small set of grey level features, including Grey Level Dependence Matrix and Neighbouring Grey Tone Difference Matrix features, were well suited for the task. The automated method performed similarly to expert annotators at identifying the positions of RNAscope transcripts, with an F1-score of 0.571 compared to the expert inter-rater F1-score of 0.596. These results demonstrate the potential of grey level texture features for automated quantification of RNAscope in the pathology workflow.
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spellingShingle Grey Level Texture Features for Segmentation of Chromogenic Dye RNAscope From Breast Cancer Tissue
Davidson, Andrew
Morley-Bunker, Arthur
Wiggins, George
Walker, Logan
Harris, Gavin
Mukundan, Ramakrishnan
Investigators, kConFab
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Chromogenic RNAscope dye and haematoxylin staining of cancer tissue facilitates diagnosis of the cancer type and subsequent treatment, and fits well into existing pathology workflows. However, manual quantification of the RNAscope transcripts (dots), which signify gene expression, is prohibitively time consuming. In addition, there is a lack of verified supporting methods for quantification and analysis. This paper investigates the usefulness of grey level texture features for automatically segmenting and classifying the positions of RNAscope transcripts from breast cancer tissue. Feature analysis showed that a small set of grey level features, including Grey Level Dependence Matrix and Neighbouring Grey Tone Difference Matrix features, were well suited for the task. The automated method performed similarly to expert annotators at identifying the positions of RNAscope transcripts, with an F1-score of 0.571 compared to the expert inter-rater F1-score of 0.596. These results demonstrate the potential of grey level texture features for automated quantification of RNAscope in the pathology workflow.
title Grey Level Texture Features for Segmentation of Chromogenic Dye RNAscope From Breast Cancer Tissue
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15886