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Experimental Assessment of Color Deconvolution and Color Normalization for Automated Classification of Histology Images Stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The appearance of histology images stained with H&E can vary a lot as a consequence of changes in the reagents, staining conditions, preparation procedure and acquisition system. In this work we investigated whether color preprocessing—specifically color deconvolution and color n...

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Autores principales: Bianconi, Francesco, Kather, Jakob N., Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7697346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33187299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12113337
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Kather, Jakob N.
Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: The appearance of histology images stained with H&E can vary a lot as a consequence of changes in the reagents, staining conditions, preparation procedure and acquisition system. In this work we investigated whether color preprocessing—specifically color deconvolution and color normalization—could be used to correct such variability and improve the performance of automated classification procedures. Experimenting on 11 datasets, 13 image descriptors and eight color pre-processing methods we found that doing no color preprocessing was the best option in most cases. ABSTRACT: Histological evaluation plays a major role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The appearance of H&E-stained images can vary significantly as a consequence of differences in several factors, such as reagents, staining conditions, preparation procedure and image acquisition system. Such potential sources of noise can all have negative effects on computer-assisted classification. To minimize such artefacts and their potentially negative effects several color pre-processing methods have been proposed in the literature—for instance, color augmentation, color constancy, color deconvolution and color transfer. Still, little work has been done to investigate the efficacy of these methods on a quantitative basis. In this paper, we evaluated the effects of color constancy, deconvolution and transfer on automated classification of H&E-stained images representing different types of cancers—specifically breast, prostate, colorectal cancer and malignant lymphoma. Our results indicate that in most cases color pre-processing does not improve the classification accuracy, especially when coupled with color-based image descriptors. Some pre-processing methods, however, can be beneficial when used with some texture-based methods like Gabor filters and Local Binary Patterns.
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spelling pubmed-76973462020-11-29 Experimental Assessment of Color Deconvolution and Color Normalization for Automated Classification of Histology Images Stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin Bianconi, Francesco Kather, Jakob N. Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos Cancers (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: The appearance of histology images stained with H&E can vary a lot as a consequence of changes in the reagents, staining conditions, preparation procedure and acquisition system. In this work we investigated whether color preprocessing—specifically color deconvolution and color normalization—could be used to correct such variability and improve the performance of automated classification procedures. Experimenting on 11 datasets, 13 image descriptors and eight color pre-processing methods we found that doing no color preprocessing was the best option in most cases. ABSTRACT: Histological evaluation plays a major role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The appearance of H&E-stained images can vary significantly as a consequence of differences in several factors, such as reagents, staining conditions, preparation procedure and image acquisition system. Such potential sources of noise can all have negative effects on computer-assisted classification. To minimize such artefacts and their potentially negative effects several color pre-processing methods have been proposed in the literature—for instance, color augmentation, color constancy, color deconvolution and color transfer. Still, little work has been done to investigate the efficacy of these methods on a quantitative basis. In this paper, we evaluated the effects of color constancy, deconvolution and transfer on automated classification of H&E-stained images representing different types of cancers—specifically breast, prostate, colorectal cancer and malignant lymphoma. Our results indicate that in most cases color pre-processing does not improve the classification accuracy, especially when coupled with color-based image descriptors. Some pre-processing methods, however, can be beneficial when used with some texture-based methods like Gabor filters and Local Binary Patterns. MDPI 2020-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7697346/ /pubmed/33187299 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12113337 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Experimental Assessment of Color Deconvolution and Color Normalization for Automated Classification of Histology Images Stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin
title_fullStr Experimental Assessment of Color Deconvolution and Color Normalization for Automated Classification of Histology Images Stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin
title_full_unstemmed Experimental Assessment of Color Deconvolution and Color Normalization for Automated Classification of Histology Images Stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin
title_short Experimental Assessment of Color Deconvolution and Color Normalization for Automated Classification of Histology Images Stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin
title_sort experimental assessment of color deconvolution and color normalization for automated classification of histology images stained with hematoxylin and eosin
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7697346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33187299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12113337
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