Abstract
Digital pathology (DP) is a new research area which falls under the broad umbrella of health informatics. Owing to its potential for major public health impact, in recent years DP has been attracting much research attention. Nevertheless, a wide breadth of significant conceptual and technical challenges remain, few of them greater than those encountered in digital oncology. The automatic analysis of digital pathology slides of cancerous tissues is particularly problematic due to the inherent heterogeneity of the disease, extremely large images, and numerous others. In this paper we introduce a novel machine learning based framework for the prediction of colorectal cancer outcome from whole haematoxylin & eosin (H&E) stained histopathology slides. Using a real-world data set we demonstrate the effectiveness of the method and present a detailed analysis of its different elements which corroborate its ability to extract and learn salient, discriminative, and clinically meaningful content.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICOB 2019 |
Subtitle of host publication | Honolulu; United States; 18 March 2019 through 20 March 2019 |
Editors | Oliver Eulenstein, Hisham Al-Mubaid, Qin Ding |
Publisher | EasyChair |
Pages | 139-127 |
Number of pages | 11 |
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Publication status | Published - 18 Mar 2019 |
Event | 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB) - Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort, Honolulu, United States Duration: 18 Mar 2019 → 20 Mar 2019 Conference number: 11 https://sceweb.uhcl.edu/bicob19/ |
Publication series
Name | EPiC Series in Computing |
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Publisher | EasyChair |
Volume | 60 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2398-7340 |
Conference
Conference | 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB) |
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Abbreviated title | BICOB |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Honolulu |
Period | 18/03/19 → 20/03/19 |
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Keywords
- CNN
- Convolution
- Health
- Neural network
- Pathology
- Public
- Tumour