Stain-Invariant Representation for Tissue Classification in Histology Images

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Main Authors: Raza, Manahil, Bashir, Saad, Qaiser, Talha, Rajpoot, Nasir
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author Raza, Manahil
Bashir, Saad
Qaiser, Talha
Rajpoot, Nasir
author_facet Raza, Manahil
Bashir, Saad
Qaiser, Talha
Rajpoot, Nasir
contents The process of digitising histology slides involves multiple factors that can affect a whole slide image's (WSI) final appearance, including the staining protocol, scanner, and tissue type. This variability constitutes a domain shift and results in significant problems when training and testing deep learning (DL) algorithms in multi-cohort settings. As such, developing robust and generalisable DL models in computational pathology (CPath) remains an open challenge. In this regard, we propose a framework that generates stain-augmented versions of the training images using stain matrix perturbation. Thereafter, we employed a stain regularisation loss to enforce consistency between the feature representations of the source and augmented images. Doing so encourages the model to learn stain-invariant and, consequently, domain-invariant feature representations. We evaluate the performance of the proposed model on cross-domain multi-class tissue type classification of colorectal cancer images and have achieved improved performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle Stain-Invariant Representation for Tissue Classification in Histology Images
Raza, Manahil
Bashir, Saad
Qaiser, Talha
Rajpoot, Nasir
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The process of digitising histology slides involves multiple factors that can affect a whole slide image's (WSI) final appearance, including the staining protocol, scanner, and tissue type. This variability constitutes a domain shift and results in significant problems when training and testing deep learning (DL) algorithms in multi-cohort settings. As such, developing robust and generalisable DL models in computational pathology (CPath) remains an open challenge. In this regard, we propose a framework that generates stain-augmented versions of the training images using stain matrix perturbation. Thereafter, we employed a stain regularisation loss to enforce consistency between the feature representations of the source and augmented images. Doing so encourages the model to learn stain-invariant and, consequently, domain-invariant feature representations. We evaluate the performance of the proposed model on cross-domain multi-class tissue type classification of colorectal cancer images and have achieved improved performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods.
title Stain-Invariant Representation for Tissue Classification in Histology Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15237