A Partially Supervised Bayesian Image Classification Model with Applications in Diagnosis of Sentinel Lymph Node Metastases in Breast Cancer

12/28/2017
by   Ying Zhu, et al.
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A method has been developed for the analysis of images of sentinel lymph nodes generated by a spectral scanning device. The aim is to classify the nodes, excised during surgery for breast cancer, as normal or metastatic. The data from one node constitute spectra at 86 wavelengths for each pixel of a 20*20 grid. For the analysis, the spectra are reduced to scores on two factors, one derived externally from a linear discriminant analysis using spectra taken manually from known normal and metastatic tissue, and one derived from the node under investigation to capture variability orthogonal to the external factor. Then a three-group mixture model (normal, metastatic, non-nodal background) using multivariate t distributions is fitted to the scores, with external data being used to specify informative prior distributions for the parameters of the three distributions. A Markov random field prior imposes smoothness on the image generated by the model. Finally, the node is classified as metastatic if any one pixel in this smoothed image is classified as metastatic. The model parameters were tuned on a training set of nodes, and then the tuned model was tested on a separate validation set of nodes, achieving satisfactory sensitivity and specificity. The aim in developing the analysis was to allow flexibility in the way each node is modelled whilst still using external information. The Bayesian framework employed is ideal for this.

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