Fully Automatic Content-Aware Tiling Pipeline for Pathology Whole Slide Images

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Main Authors: Jabar, Falah, Busund, Lill-Tove Rasmussen, Ricciuti, Biagio, Tafavvoghi, Masoud, Pøhl, Mette, Andersen, Sigve, Donnem, Tom, Kwiatkowski, David J., Rakaee, Mehrdad
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author Jabar, Falah
Busund, Lill-Tove Rasmussen
Ricciuti, Biagio
Tafavvoghi, Masoud
Pøhl, Mette
Andersen, Sigve
Donnem, Tom
Kwiatkowski, David J.
Rakaee, Mehrdad
author_facet Jabar, Falah
Busund, Lill-Tove Rasmussen
Ricciuti, Biagio
Tafavvoghi, Masoud
Pøhl, Mette
Andersen, Sigve
Donnem, Tom
Kwiatkowski, David J.
Rakaee, Mehrdad
contents In recent years, the use of deep learning (DL) methods, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced computational pathology, enhancing both diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) Whole Slide Images (WSI) plays a crucial role by providing detailed tissue samples for the analysis and training of DL models. However, WSIs often contain regions with artifacts such as tissue folds, blurring, as well as non-tissue regions (background), which can negatively impact DL model performance. These artifacts are diagnostically irrelevant and can lead to inaccurate results. This paper proposes a fully automatic supervised DL pipeline for WSI Quality Assessment (WSI-QA) that uses a fused model combining CNNs and ViTs to detect and exclude WSI regions with artifacts, ensuring that only qualified WSI regions are used to build DL-based computational pathology applications. The proposed pipeline employs a pixel-based segmentation model to classify WSI regions as either qualified or non-qualified based on the presence of artifacts. The proposed model was trained on a large and diverse dataset and validated with internal and external data from various human organs, scanners, and H&E staining procedures. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model, which outperforms state-of-the-art methods in WSI artifact detection. The proposed model consistently achieved over 95% accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score across all artifact types. Furthermore, the WSI-QA pipeline shows strong generalization across different tissue types and scanning conditions.
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spellingShingle Fully Automatic Content-Aware Tiling Pipeline for Pathology Whole Slide Images
Jabar, Falah
Busund, Lill-Tove Rasmussen
Ricciuti, Biagio
Tafavvoghi, Masoud
Pøhl, Mette
Andersen, Sigve
Donnem, Tom
Kwiatkowski, David J.
Rakaee, Mehrdad
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In recent years, the use of deep learning (DL) methods, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced computational pathology, enhancing both diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) Whole Slide Images (WSI) plays a crucial role by providing detailed tissue samples for the analysis and training of DL models. However, WSIs often contain regions with artifacts such as tissue folds, blurring, as well as non-tissue regions (background), which can negatively impact DL model performance. These artifacts are diagnostically irrelevant and can lead to inaccurate results. This paper proposes a fully automatic supervised DL pipeline for WSI Quality Assessment (WSI-QA) that uses a fused model combining CNNs and ViTs to detect and exclude WSI regions with artifacts, ensuring that only qualified WSI regions are used to build DL-based computational pathology applications. The proposed pipeline employs a pixel-based segmentation model to classify WSI regions as either qualified or non-qualified based on the presence of artifacts. The proposed model was trained on a large and diverse dataset and validated with internal and external data from various human organs, scanners, and H&E staining procedures. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model, which outperforms state-of-the-art methods in WSI artifact detection. The proposed model consistently achieved over 95% accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score across all artifact types. Furthermore, the WSI-QA pipeline shows strong generalization across different tissue types and scanning conditions.
title Fully Automatic Content-Aware Tiling Pipeline for Pathology Whole Slide Images
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16885