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Glomerulus classification in kidney tissue segments is a key process in nephropathology to obtain correct diseases diagnosis. In this paper, we deal with the challenge to automate the Glomerulus classification from digitized kidney slide segments using a deep learning framework. The proposed method applies Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) classification between two classes: Glomerulus and Non-Glomerulus, to detect the image segments belonging to Glomerulus regions. We configure the CNN with the public pre-trained AlexNet model, and adapt it to our system by learning from Glomerulus and Non-Glomerulus regions extracted from training slides. Once the model is trained, the labelling is performed applying the CNN classification to the image segments under analysis. The results obtained indicate that this technique is suitable for correct Glomerulus classification, showing robustness while reducing false positive and false negative detections.
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SVS is a semi-proprietary file format consisting on a single-file pyramidal tiled TIFF, which can be opened with Aperio ImageScope software, by Leica, and by ImageJ or Fiji via the Bio-Formats plugin, or the individual TIFF files can be extracted.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s FP7 programme under grant agreement no: 612471. http://aidpath.eu/
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Pedraza, A., Gallego, J., Lopez, S., Gonzalez, L., Laurinavicius, A., Bueno, G. (2017). Glomerulus Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Valdés Hernández, M., González-Castro, V. (eds) Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. MIUA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 723. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60964-5_73
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