DeepGleason: a System for Automated Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer using Deep Neural Networks

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Main Authors: Müller, Dominik, Meyer, Philip, Rentschler, Lukas, Manz, Robin, Bäcker, Jonas, Cramer, Samantha, Wengenmayr, Christoph, Märkl, Bruno, Huss, Ralf, Soto-Rey, Iñaki, Raffler, Johannes
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author Müller, Dominik
Meyer, Philip
Rentschler, Lukas
Manz, Robin
Bäcker, Jonas
Cramer, Samantha
Wengenmayr, Christoph
Märkl, Bruno
Huss, Ralf
Soto-Rey, Iñaki
Raffler, Johannes
author_facet Müller, Dominik
Meyer, Philip
Rentschler, Lukas
Manz, Robin
Bäcker, Jonas
Cramer, Samantha
Wengenmayr, Christoph
Märkl, Bruno
Huss, Ralf
Soto-Rey, Iñaki
Raffler, Johannes
contents Advances in digital pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) offer promising opportunities for clinical decision support and enhancing diagnostic workflows. Previous studies already demonstrated AI's potential for automated Gleason grading, but lack state-of-the-art methodology and model reusability. To address this issue, we propose DeepGleason: an open-source deep neural network based image classification system for automated Gleason grading using whole-slide histopathology images from prostate tissue sections. Implemented with the standardized AUCMEDI framework, our tool employs a tile-wise classification approach utilizing fine-tuned image preprocessing techniques in combination with a ConvNeXt architecture which was compared to various state-of-the-art architectures. The neural network model was trained and validated on an in-house dataset of 34,264 annotated tiles from 369 prostate carcinoma slides. We demonstrated that DeepGleason is capable of highly accurate and reliable Gleason grading with a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.806, AUC of 0.991, and Accuracy of 0.974. The internal architecture comparison revealed that the ConvNeXt model was superior performance-wise on our dataset to established and other modern architectures like transformers. Furthermore, we were able to outperform the current state-of-the-art in tile-wise fine-classification with a sensitivity and specificity of 0.94 and 0.98 for benign vs malignant detection as well as of 0.91 and 0.75 for Gleason 3 vs Gleason 4 & 5 classification, respectively. Our tool contributes to the wider adoption of AI-based Gleason grading within the research community and paves the way for broader clinical application of deep learning models in digital pathology. DeepGleason is open-source and publicly available for research application in the following Git repository: https://github.com/frankkramer-lab/DeepGleason.
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spellingShingle DeepGleason: a System for Automated Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer using Deep Neural Networks
Müller, Dominik
Meyer, Philip
Rentschler, Lukas
Manz, Robin
Bäcker, Jonas
Cramer, Samantha
Wengenmayr, Christoph
Märkl, Bruno
Huss, Ralf
Soto-Rey, Iñaki
Raffler, Johannes
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Tissues and Organs
Advances in digital pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) offer promising opportunities for clinical decision support and enhancing diagnostic workflows. Previous studies already demonstrated AI's potential for automated Gleason grading, but lack state-of-the-art methodology and model reusability. To address this issue, we propose DeepGleason: an open-source deep neural network based image classification system for automated Gleason grading using whole-slide histopathology images from prostate tissue sections. Implemented with the standardized AUCMEDI framework, our tool employs a tile-wise classification approach utilizing fine-tuned image preprocessing techniques in combination with a ConvNeXt architecture which was compared to various state-of-the-art architectures. The neural network model was trained and validated on an in-house dataset of 34,264 annotated tiles from 369 prostate carcinoma slides. We demonstrated that DeepGleason is capable of highly accurate and reliable Gleason grading with a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.806, AUC of 0.991, and Accuracy of 0.974. The internal architecture comparison revealed that the ConvNeXt model was superior performance-wise on our dataset to established and other modern architectures like transformers. Furthermore, we were able to outperform the current state-of-the-art in tile-wise fine-classification with a sensitivity and specificity of 0.94 and 0.98 for benign vs malignant detection as well as of 0.91 and 0.75 for Gleason 3 vs Gleason 4 & 5 classification, respectively. Our tool contributes to the wider adoption of AI-based Gleason grading within the research community and paves the way for broader clinical application of deep learning models in digital pathology. DeepGleason is open-source and publicly available for research application in the following Git repository: https://github.com/frankkramer-lab/DeepGleason.
title DeepGleason: a System for Automated Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer using Deep Neural Networks
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Tissues and Organs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16678