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Lung adenocarcinoma has histologically distinct growth patterns that have been associated with patient prognosis. Precision segmentation of growth patterns in routine histology samples is challenging due to the complexity of patterns and high intra-class variability. In this paper, we present a novel model with a multi-stream architecture, Cross-Stream Interactions (CroSIn), which fully considers crucial interactions across scales to gather abundant information. The first-order attention introduces contextual information at an early stage to guide low-level feature encoding. The second-order attention then focuses on learning high-level feature relations among scales to extract discriminative features. Experimental results show interactions at both low- and high-level feature learning stages are crucial in performance improvement. The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art networks, achieving an average Dice of \(60.34\%\) at patch level, and an average accuracy of \(65.31\%\) at sample level, which is also verified in an independent cohort.
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Instances of segmentation results for ablation study, showing the effectiveness of the first- and second-order attention modules. (a) Ground truth. (b) Single Stream. (c) Multi-ADD. (d) Multi-FO. (e) Multi-SO. (f) Multi-FO & SO.
Segmentation instances at WSI level from different comparison methods. (a) Original WSI with acinar as predominant pattern (red). (b) attention U-Net. (c) DeepLabV3+. (d) DANet. (e) Medical Transformer. (f) Proposed CroSIn. (Color figure online)
Instances of patch-level results from different comparison methods, suggesting the advantage of the proposed model. (a) Ground truth. (b) attention U-Net. (c) DeepLabV3+. (d) DANet. (e) Medical Transformer. (f) Proposed CroSIn.
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Pan, X. et al. (2022). Cross-Stream Interactions: Segmentation of Lung Adenocarcinoma Growth Patterns. In: Qin, W., Zaki, N., Zhang, F., Wu, J., Yang, F. (eds) Computational Mathematics Modeling in Cancer Analysis. CMMCA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17266-3_8
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