Unraveling a Histopathological Needle-in-Haystack Problem: Exploring the Challenges of Detecting Tumor Budding in Colorectal Carcinoma Histology

APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL(2024)

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Background: In this study focusing on colorectal carcinoma (CRC), we address the imperative task of predicting post-surgery treatment needs by identifying crucial tumor features within whole slide images of solid tumors, analogous to locating a needle in a histological haystack. We evaluate two approaches to address this challenge using a small CRC dataset. Methods: First, we explore a conventional tile-level training approach, testing various data augmentation methods to mitigate the memorization effect in a noisy label setting. Second, we examine a multi-instance learning (MIL) approach at the case level, adapting data augmentation techniques to prevent over-fitting in the limited data set context. Results: The tile-level approach proves ineffective due to the limited number of informative image tiles per case. Conversely, the MIL approach demonstrates success for the small dataset when coupled with post-feature vector creation data augmentation techniques. In this setting, the MIL model accurately predicts nodal status corresponding to expert-based budding scores for these cases. Conclusions: This study incorporates data augmentation techniques into a MIL approach, highlighting the effectiveness of the MIL method in detecting predictive factors such as tumor budding, despite the constraints of a limited dataset size.
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histopathology,CRC,budding,supervised segmentation,classification
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