机构:[1]Xiamen Univ, Sch Informat, Dept Comp Sci, Xiamen, Peoples R China[2]Cent Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Informat, Beijing, Peoples R China[3]Clinvita Intelligent Pathol Ctr, Med AI Lab, Shanghai, Peoples R China[4]Hebei Med Univ, Hosp 4, Dept Pathol, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, Peoples R China医技科室病理科河北医科大学第四医院[5]Xian Jiaotong Liverpool Univ, Sch AI & Adv Comp, Suzhou, Peoples R China[6]Univ Hong Kong, Dept Stat & Actuarial Sci, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
The assessment of HER2 expression is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer. Staining pathological tissues with immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a critically pivotal step in the assessment procedure, while it is expensive and time-consuming. Recently, generative models have emerged as a novel paradigm for virtual staining from hematoxylineosin (H&E) to IHC. Unlike traditional image translation tasks, virtual staining in IHC for HER2 scoring requires greater attention to regions like nuclei and stained membranes, informed by task-specific domain knowledge. Unfortunately, most existing virtual staining methods overlook this point. In this paper, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) based solution that incorporates specific knowledge of HER2 scoring, i.e., nuclei distribution and membrane staining intensity. We introduce a nuclei density estimator to learn the nuclei distribution and thus facilitate the cell alignment between the real and generated images by an auxiliary regularization branch. Moreover, another branch is tailored to focus on the stained membranes, ensuring a more consistent membrane staining intensity. We collect RegH2I, a dataset comprising 2592 pairs of registered H&E-IHC images and conduct extensive experiments to evaluate our approach, including H&E-to-IHC virtual staining on internal and external datasets, nuclei distribution and membrane staining intensity analysis, as well as downstream tasks for generated images. The results demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance than existing methods. Code and dataset are released at https://github.com/balball/TDKstain.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China [62371409]; Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [T45-401/22-N, 27206123]; Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund [ITS/274/22]
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第一作者机构:[1]Xiamen Univ, Sch Informat, Dept Comp Sci, Xiamen, Peoples R China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Peng Qiong,Lin Weiping,Hu Yihuang,et al.Advancing H&E-to-IHC Virtual Staining with Task-Specific Domain Knowledge for HER2 Scoring[J].MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2024, PT IV.2024,15004:3-13.doi:10.1007/978-3-031-72083-3_1.
APA:
Peng, Qiong,Lin, Weiping,Hu, Yihuang,Bao, Ailisi,Lian, Chenyu...&Wang, Liansheng.(2024).Advancing H&E-to-IHC Virtual Staining with Task-Specific Domain Knowledge for HER2 Scoring.MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2024, PT IV,15004,
MLA:
Peng, Qiong,et al."Advancing H&E-to-IHC Virtual Staining with Task-Specific Domain Knowledge for HER2 Scoring".MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2024, PT IV 15004.(2024):3-13