Robust Quad-Tree based Registration on Whole Slide Images

Marzahl C, Wilm F, Dressler FF, Tharun L, Perner S, Bertram CA, Kröger C, Voigt J, Klopfleisch R, Maier A, Aubreville M, Breininger K (2021)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2021

Pages Range: 181-190

Abstract

The registration of whole slide images (WSIs) provides the basis for many subsequent processing steps in digital pathology. For instance, the registration of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and hematoxylin & eosin (H&E)-stained WSIs is usually the first step in guiding IHC diagnostic procedures. Still, many registration methods operate poorly on WSIs. Reasons for this include the WSI size, fluctuating image quality or elastic tissue deformations. Multiple prior methods are further specialised towards a specific image modality, such as histology or cytology, or rely on a specific preparation protocol. To minimise these effects, we developed a robust WSI registration, which differs from previous methods by the following new aspect: We introduce a multi-scale approach based on a quad-tree (QT), with several termination criteria that makes the algorithm particularly insensitive to tissue artefacts and that further allows to estimate a piece-wise affine transformation. We validated our method on five scanner systems and 60 WSIs with different stainings. Our results outperformed any publicly available WSI registration method. The QT code, WSI landmarks and tools used to create the validation dataset are made publicly available.

Authors with CRIS profile

Christian Marzahl Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung) Frauke Wilm Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung) Andreas Maier Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung) Katharina Breininger Juniorprofessur für Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging

Involved external institutions

Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) DE Germany (DE) EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG DE Germany (DE) Freie Universität Berlin DE Germany (DE) Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Marzahl, C., Wilm, F., Dressler, F.F., Tharun, L., Perner, S., Bertram, C.A.,... Breininger, K. (2021). Robust Quad-Tree based Registration on Whole Slide Images. In Proceedings of the MICCAI Computational Pathlogy (COMPAY) Workshop (pp. 181-190).

MLA:

Marzahl, Christian, et al. "Robust Quad-Tree based Registration on Whole Slide Images." Proceedings of the MICCAI Computational Pathlogy (COMPAY) Workshop 2021. 181-190.

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