Abstract
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with varying malignancy and extent across different patients. Cytological features like prominent nucleoli, nuclear enlargement, and hyperchromasia are important to the tumor pathologist in assessment of cancer malignancy from tissue biopsies. In a recent study, Yap et al. [21] proposed effective prominent nucleoli detectors in histopathological images and developed different feature generation methods. These methods were based on polar gradients and were used along with support vector machine (SVM) and AdaBoost for detection purposes. In this study, we benchmark the performance of these methods along with convolutional and fully connected networks for the task of distinguishing between nuclei with and without prominent nucleolus.
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This work was supported in part by the Biomedical Research Council of A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore; the National University of Singapore, Singapore, the Departments of Urology and Pathology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore and Singapore-China NRF-NSFC Grant (No. NRF2016NRF-NSFC001-111). Part of the computational work for this article was done on resources of the National Supercomputing Computer Singapore (https://www.nscc.sg).
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Singh, M., Zeng, Z., Kalaw, E.M., Giron, D.M., Chong, KT., Lee, H.K. (2018). A Study of Nuclei Classification Methods in Histopathological Images. In: Chen, YW., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017. KES-InMed 2018 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 71. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59397-5_9
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