Abstract
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly occurring cancer in men with a high incidence to mortality ratio. Accurate prostate cancer grading is the foremost step in determining the precise treatment process for the patient in preventing mortality of the patient. Currently, the grading is carried out by pathologists, which has limitation of availability super specialist doctors across world to grade it at affordable price, and non-super specialist doctor grading is error prone. This paper evades the need for an expert pathologist by proposing a novel deep learning method for automatic screening of prostate images to detect and assign a grade severity of cancer based on the images. The explainability of classification model imbibed using gradient-weighted class activation mapping (GradCAM) visualization, which generate heatmap of image, which influenced the decision of the model. The proposed method has three stages with ensemble deep neural networks to grade the prostate cancer. Firstly, a UNet is used for the segmentation of the histopathological image. Subsequently, the segmented image is overlaid on the original image, which helps underscore the most critical regions determining the grade of cancer. Finally, the overlaid image is used by an ensemble model consisting of Xception, Resnet-50, EfficientNet-b7 to predict the final grade of the histopathological image. The dataset containing 10,000 histopathological images obtained from Karolinska and Radboud that are made publicly available through the Prostate Cancer Grade Assessment Challenge hosted in Kaggle is used for training and evaluation. This method achieves a classification accuracy of 92.38% and outperforms many state-of-the-art methods.
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Bygari, R., Rithesh, K., Ambesange, S., Koolagudi, S.G. (2023). Prostate Cancer Grading Using Multistage Deep Neural Networks. In: Doriya, R., Soni, B., Shukla, A., Gao, XZ. (eds) Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 946. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5868-7_21
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