Öttl M, Steenpaß J, Rübner M, Geppert CI, Qiu J, Wilm F, Hartmann A, Beckmann M, Fasching P, Maier A, Erber R, Breininger K (2023)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2023
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Book Volume: 2023-April
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
ISBN: 9781665473583
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230503
Tumor segmentation in histopathology images is often complicated by its composition of different histological subtypes and class imbalance. Oversampling subtypes with low prevalence features is not a satisfactory solution since it eventually leads to overfitting. We propose to create synthetic images with semantically-conditioned deep generative networks and to combine subtype-balanced synthetic images with the original dataset to achieve better segmentation performance. We show the suitability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and especially diffusion models to create realistic images based on subtype-conditioning for the use case of HER2-stained histopathology. Additionally, we show the capability of diffusion models to conditionally inpaint HER2 tumor areas with modified subtypes. Combining the original dataset with the same amount of diffusion-generated images increased the tumor Dice score from 0.833 to 0.854 and almost halved the variance between the HER2 subtype recalls. These results create the basis for more reliable automatic HER2 analysis with lower performance variance between individual HER2 subtypes.
APA:
Öttl, M., Steenpaß, J., Rübner, M., Geppert, C.-I., Qiu, J., Wilm, F.,... Breininger, K. (2023). Improved HER2 Tumor Segmentation with Subtype Balancing Using Deep Generative Networks. In Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. Cartagena, CO: IEEE Computer Society.
MLA:
Öttl, Mathias, et al. "Improved HER2 Tumor Segmentation with Subtype Balancing Using Deep Generative Networks." Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023, Cartagena IEEE Computer Society, 2023.
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