Yuenyong Sumeth, Boonsakan Paisarn, Sripodok Supasan, Thuwajit Peti, Charngkaew Komgrid, Pongpaibul Ananya, Angkathunyakul Napat, Hnoohom Narit, Thuwajit Chanitra
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Feb 7;11:1303982. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1303982. eCollection 2024.
Detection and counting of Centroblast cells (CB) in hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) stained whole slide image (WSI) is an important workflow in grading Lymphoma. Each high power field (HPF) patch of a WSI is inspected for the number of CB cells and compared with the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline that organizes lymphoma into 3 grades. Spotting and counting CBs is time-consuming and labor intensive. Moreover, there is often disagreement between different readers, and even a single reader may not be able to perform consistently due to many factors.
We propose an artificial intelligence system that can scan patches from a WSI and detect CBs automatically. The AI system works on the principle of object detection, where the CB is the single class of object of interest. We trained the AI model on 1,669 example instances of CBs that originate from WSI of 5 different patients. The data was split 80%/20% for training and validation respectively.
The best performance was from YOLOv5x6 model that used the preprocessed CB dataset achieved precision of 0.808, recall of 0.776, mAP at 0.5 IoU of 0.800 and overall mAP of 0.647.
The results show that centroblast cells can be detected in WSI with relatively high precision and recall.
在苏木精和伊红(H&E)染色的全切片图像(WSI)中检测和计数中心母细胞(CB)是淋巴瘤分级的重要工作流程。对WSI的每个高倍视野(HPF)切片检查CB细胞数量,并与将淋巴瘤分为3级的世界卫生组织(WHO)指南进行比较。发现和计数CB细胞既耗时又费力。此外,不同的阅片者之间常常存在分歧,而且由于多种因素,即使是单个阅片者也可能无法始终如一地进行操作。
我们提出了一种人工智能系统,该系统可以扫描WSI中的切片并自动检测CB。该人工智能系统基于目标检测原理工作,其中CB是唯一感兴趣的目标类别。我们在来自5名不同患者的WSI的1669个CB示例实例上训练了人工智能模型。数据分别以80%/20%的比例用于训练和验证。
性能最佳的是使用预处理后的CB数据集的YOLOv5x6模型,其精度为0.808,召回率为0.776,在IoU为0.5时的平均精度均值(mAP)为0.800,总体mAP为0.647。
结果表明,可以在WSI中以相对较高的精度和召回率检测中心母细胞。