Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models

Histopathology slides are routinely marked by pathologists using permanent ink markers that should not be removed as they form part of the medical record. Often tumour regions are marked up for the purpose of highlighting features or other downstream processing such an gene sequencing. Once digitise...

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Հիմնական հեղինակներ: Ali, S, Alham, N, Verrill, C, Rittscher, J
Ձևաչափ: Journal article
Հրապարակվել է: IEEE 2019
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author Ali, S
Alham, N
Verrill, C
Rittscher, J
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description Histopathology slides are routinely marked by pathologists using permanent ink markers that should not be removed as they form part of the medical record. Often tumour regions are marked up for the purpose of highlighting features or other downstream processing such an gene sequencing. Once digitised there is no established method for removing this information from the whole slide images limiting its usability in research and study. Removal of marker ink from these high-resolution whole slide images is non-trivial and complex problem as they contaminate different regions and in an inconsistent manner. We propose an efficient pipeline using convolution neural networks that results in ink-free images without compromising information and image resolution. Our pipeline includes a sequential classical convolution neural network for accurate classification of contaminated image tiles, a fast region detector and a domain adaptive cycle consistent adversarial generative model for restoration of foreground pixels. Both quantitative and qualitative results on four different whole slide images show that our approach yields visually coherent ink-free whole slide images.
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spelling oxford-uuid:9fb50a8e-239a-49cf-83a7-a47e4b8dba2f2022-03-27T00:59:57ZInk removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation modelsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9fb50a8e-239a-49cf-83a7-a47e4b8dba2fSymplectic Elements at OxfordIEEE2019Ali, SAlham, NVerrill, CRittscher, JHistopathology slides are routinely marked by pathologists using permanent ink markers that should not be removed as they form part of the medical record. Often tumour regions are marked up for the purpose of highlighting features or other downstream processing such an gene sequencing. Once digitised there is no established method for removing this information from the whole slide images limiting its usability in research and study. Removal of marker ink from these high-resolution whole slide images is non-trivial and complex problem as they contaminate different regions and in an inconsistent manner. We propose an efficient pipeline using convolution neural networks that results in ink-free images without compromising information and image resolution. Our pipeline includes a sequential classical convolution neural network for accurate classification of contaminated image tiles, a fast region detector and a domain adaptive cycle consistent adversarial generative model for restoration of foreground pixels. Both quantitative and qualitative results on four different whole slide images show that our approach yields visually coherent ink-free whole slide images.
spellingShingle Ali, S
Alham, N
Verrill, C
Rittscher, J
Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models
title Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models
title_full Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models
title_fullStr Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models
title_full_unstemmed Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models
title_short Ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification, detection and image generation models
title_sort ink removal from histopathology whole slide images by combining classification detection and image generation models
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