Semantic Segmentation of Colon Glands with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Total Variation Segmentation
Institute of Biophysics, Center for Physiological Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
arXiv:1511.06919 [cs.CV], (21 Nov 2015)
@article{kainz2015semantic,
title={Semantic Segmentation of Colon Glands with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Total Variation Segmentation},
author={Kainz, Philipp and Pfeiffer, Michael and Urschler, Martin},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06919},
year={2015}
}
Segmentation of histopathology sections is an ubiquitous requirement in digital pathology and due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over standard image processing methods. As part of the GlaS@MICCAI2015 colon gland segmentation challenge, we present a learning-based algorithm to segment glands in tissue of benign and malignant colorectal cancer. Images are preprocessed according to the Hematoxylin-Eosin staining protocol and two deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are trained as pixel classifiers. The CNN predictions are then regularized using a figure-ground segmentation based on weighted total variation to produce the final segmentation result. On two test sets, our approach achieves a tissue classification accuracy of 98% and 94%, making use of the inherent capability of our system to distinguish between benign and malignant tissue.
November 29, 2015 by hgpu
