Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 59, Issue 8, 0810004(2022)

Computer-Aided Prognosis Evaluation for MKI of Pathological Slices of Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors

Zhenzhen Wan1, Shuai Han1, Ning Shi2、*, Fang Liu3,4, Shaoyong Zhang1, and Chunxue Li1
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  • 1College of Electronic Information Engineering, Hebei University, Baoding , Hebei 071002, China
  • 2Hebei Software Institute, Baoding , Hebei 071000, China
  • 3Baoding Children's Hospital, Baoding , Hebei 071000, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Clinical Research on Children's Respiratory Digestive Diseases in Baoding City, Baoding , Hebei 071000, China
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    Peripheral neuroblastic tumors (pNT) are common extracranial malignant solid tumors in children, and its main prognostic evaluation is based on differentiation degree of neuroblastic tumor and mitosis-karyorrhexis index (MKI). At present, the calculation of MKI is mainly done manually by pathologists, which is a cumbersome process with a large workload. The computer image processing algorithm is used to identify pathological mitotic neuroblasts (PMN) and neuroblasts (NEU) in pathological slice images, and assist pathologists in counting, which can reduce doctors' repetitive work and improve doctors' work effectiveness. The mathematical morphology local minimum mark (H-minima) is used to modify the gradient amplitude, and the improved watershed algorithm is used to identify and count NEU. The experimental results show that, compared with the gold standard of pathologists, the average accuracy rate of the proposed algorithm for NEU recognition is 94.2%, and the average over-segmentation rate is 2.79%. From the perspective of chromaticity components, the average recognition accuracy of PMN cytoplasmic regions is 81.66%, and the average error rate of MKI value is 0.031%.

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    Zhenzhen Wan, Shuai Han, Ning Shi, Fang Liu, Shaoyong Zhang, Chunxue Li. Computer-Aided Prognosis Evaluation for MKI of Pathological Slices of Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(8): 0810004

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Mar. 16, 2021

    Accepted: Apr. 22, 2021

    Published Online: Apr. 11, 2022

    The Author Email: Shi Ning (emailshining@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202259.0810004

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