Ensemble convolutional neural network classification for pancreatic steatosis assessment in biopsy images
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Abstract
Non-alcoholic fatty pancreas disease (NAFPD) is a common and at the same time not extensively examined pathological condition that is significantly associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. These factors can lead to the development of critical pathogens such as type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), atherosclerosis, acute pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer. Until recently, the diagnosis of NAFPD was based on noninvasive medical imaging methods and visual evaluations of microscopic histological samples. The present study focuses on the quantification of steatosis prevalence in pancreatic biopsy specimens with varying degrees of NAFPD. All quantification results are extracted using a methodology consisting of digital image processing and transfer learning in pretrained convolutional neural networks for the detection of histological fat structures. The proposed method is applied to 20 digitized histological samples, producing an 0.08% mean fat quantification error thanks to an ensemble CNN voting system and 83.3% mean Dice fat segmentation similarity compared to the semi-quantitative estimates of specialist physicians.
Date Issued
2022-04-01
Date Acceptance
2022-03-21
Citation
Information, 2022, 13 (4), pp.1-21
ISSN
2078-2489
Publisher
MDPI
Start Page
1
End Page
21
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Information
Volume
13
Issue
4
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Computer Science
pancreas biopsy
pancreatitis
non-alcoholic fatty pancreas
digital image processing
image segmentation
deep learning
convolutional neural networks
computer vision
FATTY PANCREAS
DISEASE
LIVER
MODEL
RISK
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 160
Date Publish Online
2022-03-23