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Pancreatic cancer detection in whole slide images using noisy label annotations

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We propose an approach to accurately predict regions of pancreatic cancer in whole-slide images (WSIs) by leveraging a relatively large, but noisy, dataset. We employ a noisy label classification (NLC) method (called the NLC model) that utilizes a small set of clean training samples and assigns the appropriate weights to training samples to deal with sample noise. The weights are assigned online so that the network loss approximates the loss for the clean samples. This method results in a 9.7% performance improvement over the baseline non-NLC method (the Baseline-Noisy model). We use both methods in an ensemble setup to generate labels for a large training dataset to train a classifier. This classifier outperforms a classifier trained with manually annotated data by 2.94%–3.74% in terms of AUC for testing patches in WSIs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019 - 22nd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsDinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Tianming Liu, Terry M. Peters, Ali Khan, Lawrence H. Staib, Caroline Essert, Sean Zhou
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages541-549
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030322380
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: Oct 13 2019Oct 17 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11764 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period10/13/1910/17/19

Keywords

  • Pancreas
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Whole slide image

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