In silico approach for immunohistochemical evaluation of a cytoplasmic marker in breast cancer
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Journal Article
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and the second most common cancer overall, with nearly 1.7 million new cases worldwide every year. Breast cancer patients need accurate tools for early diagnosis and to improve treatment. Biomarkers are increasingly used to describe and evaluate tumours for prognosis, to facilitate and predict response to therapy and to evaluate residual tumor, post-treatment. Here, we evaluate different methods to separate Diaminobenzidine (DAB) from Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining for Wnt-1, a potential cytoplasmic breast cancer biomarker. A method comprising clustering and Color deconvolution allowed us to recognize and quantify Wnt-1 levels accurately at pixel levels. Experimental validation was conducted using a set of 12,288 blocks of m × n pixels without overlap, extracted from a Tissue Microarray (TMA) composed of 192 tissue cores. Intraclass Correlations (ICC) among evaluators of the data of 0.634 , 0.791 , 0.551 and 0.63 for each Allred class and an average ICC of 0.752 among evaluators and automatic classification were obtained. Furthermore, this method received an average rating of 4.26 out of 5 in the Wnt-1 segmentation process from the evaluators.
Date Issued
2018-12-15
Date Acceptance
2018-12-12
Citation
Cancers, 2018, 10 (12)
ISSN
2072-6694
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Cancers
Volume
10
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30558303
PII: cancers10120517
Subjects
Wnt-1
automatic quantification
automatic segmentation
breast cancer
immunohistochemistry (IHC)
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Switzerland
Article Number
517
Date Publish Online
2018-12-15