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Jeanne Shen

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preprint2026arXiv

NucEval: A Robust Evaluation Framework for Nuclear Instance Segmentation

In computational pathology, nuclear instance segmentation is a fundamental task with many downstream clinical applications. With the advent of deep learning, many approaches, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs), have been proposed for this task, along with both machine learning-based and non-machine learning-based pre- and post-processing techniques to further boost performance. However, one fundamental aspect that has received less attention is the evaluation pipeline. In this study, we identify four key issues associated with nuclear instance segmentation evaluation and propose corresponding solutions. Our proposed modifications, namely handling vague regions, score normalization, overlapping instances, and border uncertainty, are integrated into a unified framework called NucEval, which enables robust evaluation of nuclear instance segmentation. We evaluate this pipeline using the NuInsSeg dataset, which provides unique characteristics that make it particularly suitable for this study, as well as two additional external datasets, with three CNN- and ViT-based nuclear instance segmentation models, to demonstrate the impact of these modifications on instance segmentation metrics. The code, along with complete guidelines and illustrative examples, is publicly available at: https://github.com/masih4/nuc_eval.

preprint2022arXiv

Deep Learning-Based Sparse Whole-Slide Image Analysis for the Diagnosis of Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia

In recent years, deep learning has successfully been applied to automate a wide variety of tasks in diagnostic histopathology. However, fast and reliable localization of small-scale regions-of-interest (ROI) has remained a key challenge, as discriminative morphologic features often occupy only a small fraction of a gigapixel-scale whole-slide image (WSI). In this paper, we propose a sparse WSI analysis method for the rapid identification of high-power ROI for WSI-level classification. We develop an evaluation framework inspired by the early classification literature, in order to quantify the tradeoff between diagnostic performance and inference time for sparse analytic approaches. We test our method on a common but time-consuming task in pathology - that of diagnosing gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM) on hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained slides from endoscopic biopsy specimens. GIM is a well-known precursor lesion along the pathway to development of gastric cancer. We performed a thorough evaluation of the performance and inference time of our approach on a test set of GIM-positive and GIM-negative WSI, finding that our method successfully detects GIM in all positive WSI, with a WSI-level classification area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.98 and an average precision (AP) of 0.95. Furthermore, we show that our method can attain these metrics in under one minute on a standard CPU. Our results are applicable toward the goal of developing neural networks that can easily be deployed in clinical settings to support pathologists in quickly localizing and diagnosing small-scale morphologic features in WSI.

preprint2020arXiv

Analysis Of Multi Field Of View Cnn And Attention Cnn On H&E Stained Whole-slide Images On Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Whole-slide imaging which is a method of scanning glass slides have been employed for diagnosis of HCC. Using high resolution Whole-slide images is infeasible for Convolutional Neural Network applications. Hence tiling the Whole-slide images is a common methodology for assigning Convolutional Neural Networks for classification and segmentation. Determination of the tile size affects the performance of the algorithms since small field of view can not capture the information on a larger scale and large field of view can not capture the information on a cellular scale. In this work, the effect of tile size on performance for classification problem is analysed. In addition, Multi Field of View CNN is assigned for taking advantage of the information provided by different tile sizes and Attention CNN is assigned for giving the capability of voting most contributing tile size. It is found that employing more than one tile size significantly increases the performance of the classification by 3.97% and both algorithms are found successful over the algorithm which uses only one tile size.

preprint2020arXiv

Plexus Convolutional Neural Network (PlexusNet): A novel neural network architecture for histologic image analysis

Different convolutional neural network (CNN) models have been tested for their application in histological image analyses. However, these models are prone to overfitting due to their large parameter capacity, requiring more data or valuable computational resources for model training. Given these limitations, we introduced a novel architecture (termed PlexusNet). We utilized 310 Hematoxylin and Eosin stained (H&E) annotated histological images of prostate cancer cases from TCGA-PRAD and Stanford University and 398 H&E whole slides images from the Camelyon 2016 challenge. PlexusNet-architecture -derived models were compared to models derived from several existing "state of the art" architectures. We measured discrimination accuracy, calibration, and clinical utility. An ablation study was conducted to study the effect of each component of PlexusNet on model performance. A well-fitted PlexusNet-based model delivered comparable classification performance (AUC: 0.963) in distinguishing prostate cancer from healthy tissues, although it was at least 23 times smaller, had a better model calibration and clinical utility than the comparison models. A separate smaller PlexusNet model accurately detected slides with breast cancer metastases (AUC: 0.978); it helped reduce the slide number to examine by 43.8% without consequences, although its parameter capacity was 200 times smaller than ResNet18. We found that the partitioning of the development set influences the model calibration for all models. However, with PlexusNet architecture, we could achieve comparable well-calibrated models trained on different partitions. In conclusion, PlexusNet represents a novel model architecture for histological image analysis that achieves classification performance comparable to other models while providing orders-of-magnitude parameter reduction.