EndoNet: A Model for the Automatic Calculation of H-Score on Histological Slides

Autor: Egor Ushakov, Anton Naumov, Vladislav Fomberg, Polina Vishnyakova, Aleksandra Asaturova, Alina Badlaeva, Anna Tregubova, Evgeny Karpulevich, Gennady Sukhikh, Timur Fatkhudinov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Informatics, Vol 10, Iss 4, p 90 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-9709
DOI: 10.3390/informatics10040090
Popis: H-score is a semi-quantitative method used to assess the presence and distribution of proteins in tissue samples by combining the intensity of staining and the percentage of stained nuclei. It is widely used but time-consuming and can be limited in terms of accuracy and precision. Computer-aided methods may help overcome these limitations and improve the efficiency of pathologists’ workflows. In this work, we developed a model EndoNet for automatic H-score calculation on histological slides. Our proposed method uses neural networks and consists of two main parts. The first is a detection model which predicts the keypoints of centers of nuclei. The second is an H-score module that calculates the value of the H-score using mean pixel values of predicted keypoints. Our model was trained and validated on 1780 annotated tiles with a shape of 100 × 100 µm and we achieved 0.77 mAP on a test dataset. We obtained our best results in H-score calculation; these results proved superior to QuPath predictions. Moreover, the model can be adjusted to a specific specialist or whole laboratory to reproduce the manner of calculating the H-score. Thus, EndoNet is effective and robust in the analysis of histology slides, which can improve and significantly accelerate the work of pathologists.
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