Institute of Biomedical Optics and Optometry, Key Lab of Optical Instruments and Equipment for Medical Engineering, Ministry of Education, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200093, China.
Biosensors (Basel). 2024 Sep 29;14(10):467. doi: 10.3390/bios14100467.
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most common malignant skin tumor. Early and precise diagnosis of tumor staging is crucial for long-term outcomes. While pathological diagnosis has traditionally served as the gold standard, the assessment of differentiation levels heavily depends on subjective judgments. Therefore, how to improve the diagnosis accuracy and objectivity of pathologists has become an urgent problem to be solved. We used multispectral imaging (MSI) to enhance tumor classification. The hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained cSCC slides were from Shanghai Ruijin Hospital. Scale-invariant feature transform was applied to multispectral images for image stitching, while the adaptive threshold segmentation method and random forest segmentation method were used for image segmentation, respectively. Synthetic pseudo-color images effectively highlight tissue differences. Quantitative analysis confirms significant variation in the nuclear area between normal and cSCC tissues ( < 0.001), supported by an AUC of 1 in ROC analysis. The AUC within cSCC tissues is 0.57. Further study shows higher nuclear atypia in poorly differentiated cSCC tissues compared to well-differentiated cSCC ( < 0.001), also with an AUC of 1. Lastly, well differentiated cSCC tissues show more and larger keratin pearls. These results have shown that combined MSI with imaging processing techniques will improve H&E stained human cSCC diagnosis accuracy, and it will be well utilized to distinguish histopathological staging features.
皮肤鳞状细胞癌(cSCC)是第二常见的恶性皮肤肿瘤。肿瘤分期的早期和准确诊断对长期预后至关重要。虽然病理诊断一直是金标准,但分化水平的评估在很大程度上取决于主观判断。因此,如何提高病理学家的诊断准确性和客观性已成为亟待解决的问题。我们使用多光谱成像(MSI)来增强肿瘤分类。苏木精和伊红(H&E)染色的 cSCC 幻灯片来自上海瑞金医院。尺度不变特征变换(SIFT)用于多光谱图像的图像拼接,而自适应阈值分割方法和随机森林分割方法分别用于图像分割。合成伪彩色图像有效地突出了组织差异。定量分析证实正常组织和 cSCC 组织之间的核面积存在显著差异(<0.001),ROC 分析的 AUC 为 1。cSCC 组织内的 AUC 为 0.57。进一步的研究表明,与分化良好的 cSCC 相比,分化不良的 cSCC 组织中的核异型性更高(<0.001),AUC 也为 1。最后,分化良好的 cSCC 组织显示出更多和更大的角蛋白珠。这些结果表明,将 MSI 与成像处理技术相结合将提高 H&E 染色的人类 cSCC 诊断准确性,并将很好地用于区分组织病理学分期特征。
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