Deep Learning Based Segmentation of Blood Vessels from H&E Stained Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma Whole-Slide Images
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| author | Lv, Jiaqi Antonowicz, Stefan S Raza, Shan E Ahmed |
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| contents | Blood vessels (BVs) play a critical role in the Tumor Micro-Environment (TME), potentially influencing cancer progression and treatment response. However, manually quantifying BVs in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images is challenging and labor-intensive due to their heterogeneous appearances. We propose a novel approach of constructing guiding maps to improve the performance of state-of-the-art segmentation models for BV segmentation, the guiding maps encourage the models to learn representative features of BVs. This is particularly beneficial for computational pathology, where labeled training data is often limited and large models are prone to overfitting. We have quantitative and qualitative results to demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in improving segmentation accuracy. In future, we plan to validate this method to segment BVs across various tissue types and investigate the role of cellular structures in relation to BVs in the TME. |
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| spellingShingle | Deep Learning Based Segmentation of Blood Vessels from H&E Stained Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma Whole-Slide Images Lv, Jiaqi Antonowicz, Stefan S Raza, Shan E Ahmed Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Blood vessels (BVs) play a critical role in the Tumor Micro-Environment (TME), potentially influencing cancer progression and treatment response. However, manually quantifying BVs in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images is challenging and labor-intensive due to their heterogeneous appearances. We propose a novel approach of constructing guiding maps to improve the performance of state-of-the-art segmentation models for BV segmentation, the guiding maps encourage the models to learn representative features of BVs. This is particularly beneficial for computational pathology, where labeled training data is often limited and large models are prone to overfitting. We have quantitative and qualitative results to demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in improving segmentation accuracy. In future, we plan to validate this method to segment BVs across various tissue types and investigate the role of cellular structures in relation to BVs in the TME. |
| title | Deep Learning Based Segmentation of Blood Vessels from H&E Stained Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma Whole-Slide Images |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12323 |