Weakly Supervised Prostate TMA Classification via Graph Convolutional Networks

10/29/2019
by   Jingwen Wang, et al.
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Histology-based grade classification is clinically important for many cancer types in stratifying patients distinct treatment groups. In prostate cancer, the Gleason score is a grading system used to measure the aggressiveness of prostate cancer from the spatial organization of cells and the distribution of glands. However, the subjective interpretation of Gleason score often suffers from large interobserver and intraobserver variability. Previous work in deep learning-based objective Gleason grading requires manual pixel-level annotation. In this work, we propose a weakly-supervised approach for grade classification in tissue micro-arrays (TMA) using graph convolutional networks (GCNs), in which we model the spatial organization of cells as a graph to better capture the proliferation and community structure of tumor cells. As node-level features in our graph representation, we learn the morphometry of each cell using a contrastive predictive coding (CPC)-based self-supervised approach. Our results show that our method can achieve 0.9559 AUC using only TMA-level labels. Our method demonstrates a 52.24 GCNs with texture features and a 17.71 features. Our proposed pipeline can be used to objectively stratify low and high risk cases, reducing inter- and intra-observer variability and pathologist workload.

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