Automatic fine-grained glomerular lesion recognition in kidney pathology
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Journal Article
Abstract
Recognition of glomeruli lesions is the key for diagnosis and treatment planning in kidney pathology; however, the coexisting glomerular structures such as mesangial regions exacerbate the difficulties of this task. In this paper, we introduce a scheme to recognize fine-grained glomeruli lesions from whole slide images. First, a focal instance structural similarity loss is proposed to drive the model to locate all types of glomeruli precisely. Then an Uncertainty Aided Apportionment Network is designed to carry out the fine-grained visual classification without bounding-box annotations. This double branch-shaped structure extracts common features of the child class from the parent class and produces the uncertainty factor for reconstituting the training dataset. Results of slide-wise evaluation illustrate the effectiveness of the entire scheme, with an 8–22% improvement of the mean Average Precision compared with remarkable detection methods. The comprehensive results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Date Issued
2022-07-01
Date Acceptance
2022-03-11
Citation
Pattern Recognition, 2022, 127
ISSN
0031-3203
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Pattern Recognition
Volume
127
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
European Research Council Horizon 2020
Commission of the European Communities
Innovative Medicines Initiative
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Grant Number
952172
H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2019-1 952172
101005122
101005122
MR/V023799/1
MC_PC_21013
Subjects
eess.IV
eess.IV
cs.AI
cs.CV
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
0806 Information Systems
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 108648
Date Publish Online
2022-03-12