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Experiments in molecular subtype recognition based on histopathology images | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Experiments in molecular subtype recognition based on histopathology images


Abstract:

Molecular subtypes have been recently derived for various types of cancer, in an attempt to characterize the intertumoral heterogeneity. In this work we explore the possi...Show More

Abstract:

Molecular subtypes have been recently derived for various types of cancer, in an attempt to characterize the intertumoral heterogeneity. In this work we explore the possibility of constructing predictors for molecular subtypes based on histopathology images. For this, we introduce a novel 2-level bag-of-features method and we apply it to a collection of colorectal cancer samples. The resulting image features capture some relevant tumor morphology patterns and led to a classifier performing similarly to one constructed from features annotated by an expert pathologist. The significance of our results extends beyond subtype prediction since they demonstrate a possible approach to multimodal (histopathology and molecular) data mining and biomarker identification.
Date of Conference: 13-16 April 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 16 June 2016
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4799-2349-6
Electronic ISSN: 1945-8452
Conference Location: Prague, Czech Republic

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