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- Title
Deep Learning for the Classification of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma on Histopathological Images.
- Authors
Steinbuss, Georg; Kriegsmann, Mark; Zgorzelski, Christiane; Brobeil, Alexander; Goeppert, Benjamin; Dietrich, Sascha; Mechtersheimer, Gunhild; Kriegsmann, Katharina; Spaargaren, Marcel
- Abstract
Simple Summary: Histopathological examination of lymph node (LN) specimens allows the detection of hematological diseases. The identification and the classification of lymphoma, a blood cancer with a manifestation in LNs, are difficult and require many years of training, as well as additional expensive investigations. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to support the pathologist in identifying abnormalities in LN specimens. In this article, we trained and optimized an AI algorithm to automatically detect two common lymphoma subtypes that require different therapies using normal LN parenchyma as a control. The balanced accuracy in an independent test cohort was above 95%, which means that the vast majority of cases were classified correctly and only a few cases were misclassified. We applied specific methods to explain which parts of the image were important for the AI algorithm and to ensure a reliable result. Our study shows that classifications of lymphoma subtypes is possible with high accuracy. We think that routine histopathological applications for AI should be pursued. The diagnosis and the subtyping of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are challenging and require expert knowledge, great experience, thorough morphological analysis, and often additional expensive immunohistological and molecular methods. As these requirements are not always available, supplemental methods supporting morphological-based decision making and potentially entity subtyping are required. Deep learning methods have been shown to classify histopathological images with high accuracy, but data on NHL subtyping are limited. After annotation of histopathological whole-slide images and image patch extraction, we trained and optimized an EfficientNet convolutional neuronal network algorithm on 84,139 image patches from 629 patients and evaluated its potential to classify tumor-free reference lymph nodes, nodal small lymphocytic lymphoma/chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and nodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The optimized algorithm achieved an accuracy of 95.56% on an independent test set including 16,960 image patches from 125 patients after the application of quality controls. Automatic classification of NHL is possible with high accuracy using deep learning on histopathological images and routine diagnostic applications should be pursued.
- Subjects
LYMPHOMA diagnosis; DEEP learning; DIGITAL image processing; CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia; NEURONS; LYMPH nodes; B cell lymphoma; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; HISTOLOGICAL techniques; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LYMPHOMAS; ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION
- Publication
Cancers, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 10, p2419
- ISSN
2072-6694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cancers13102419