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Pathologists generally diagnose whether or not cervical cancer cells have the potential to spread to other organs and assess the malignancy of cancer through whole slide histopathology images using virtual microscopy. In this process, the morphology of nuclei is one of the significant diagnostic indices, including the size, the orientation and arrangement of the nuclei. Therefore, accurate segmentation of nuclei is a crucial step in clinical diagnosis. However, several challenges exist, namely a single whole slide image (WSI) often occupies a large amount of memory, making it difficult to manipulate. More than that, due to the extremely high density and variant shapes, sizes and overlapping nuclei, as well as low contrast, weakly defined boundaries, different staining methods and image acquisition techniques, it is difficult to achieve accurate segmentation. A method is proposed, comprised of two main parts to achieve lesion localization and automatic segmentation of nuclei. Initially, a U-Net model was used to localize and segment lesions. Then, a multi-task cascade network was proposed to combine nuclei foreground and edge information to obtain instance segmentation results. Evaluation of the proposed method for lesion localization and nuclei segmentation using a dataset comprised of cervical tissue sections collected by experienced pathologists along with comparative experiments, demonstrates the outstanding performance of this method.
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This work is supported by National Key Scientific Instruments and Equipment Development Program of China (2013YQ03065101) and partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) of China under Grant 61503243 and National Science Foundation (NSF) of China under the Grant 61521063.
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Yang, Q. et al. (2019). Cervical Nuclei Segmentation in Whole Slide Histopathology Images Using Convolution Neural Network. In: Yap, B., Mohamed, A., Berry, M. (eds) Soft Computing in Data Science. SCDS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 937. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3441-2_8
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