Novel computer-aided diagnosis of mesothelioma using nuclear structure of mesothelial cells in effusion cytology specimens

Akif Burak Tosun; Oleksandr Yergiyev; Soheil Kolouri; Jan F. Silverman; Gustavo K. Rohde

doi:10.1117/12.2043320

20 March 2014 Novel computer-aided diagnosis of mesothelioma using nuclear structure of mesothelial cells in effusion cytology specimens

Akif Burak Tosun, Oleksandr Yergiyev, Soheil Kolouri, Jan F. Silverman, Gustavo K. Rohde

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Proceedings Volume 9041, Medical Imaging 2014: Digital Pathology; 90410Z (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043320
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

diagnostic standard is a pleural biopsy with subsequent histologic examination of the tissue demonstrating invasion by the tumor. The diagnostic tissue is obtained through thoracoscopy or open thoracotomy, both being highly invasive procedures. Thoracocenthesis, or removal of effusion fluid from the pleural space, is a far less invasive procedure that can provide material for cytological examination. However, it is insufficient to definitively confirm or exclude the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, since tissue invasion cannot be determined. In this study, we present a computerized method to detect and classify malignant mesothelioma based on the nuclear chromatin distribution from digital images of mesothelial cells in effusion cytology specimens. Our method aims at determining whether a set of nuclei belonging to a patient, obtained from effusion fluid images using image segmentation, is benign or malignant, and has a potential to eliminate the need for tissue biopsy. This method is performed by quantifying chromatin morphology of cells using the optimal transportation (Kantorovich–Wasserstein) metric in combination with the modified Fisher discriminant analysis, a k-nearest neighborhood classification, and a simple voting strategy. Our results show that we can classify the data of 10 different human cases with 100% accuracy after blind cross validation. We conclude that nuclear structure alone contains enough information to classify the malignant mesothelioma. We also conclude that the distribution of chromatin seems to be a discriminating feature between nuclei of benign and malignant mesothelioma cells.

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Akif Burak Tosun, Oleksandr Yergiyev, Soheil Kolouri, Jan F. Silverman, and Gustavo K. Rohde "Novel computer-aided diagnosis of mesothelioma using nuclear structure of mesothelial cells in effusion cytology specimens", Proc. SPIE 9041, Medical Imaging 2014: Digital Pathology, 90410Z (20 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043320

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