用深度学习分析儿童脑瘤病理切片,实现多中心数据下的精准分类。
Pediatric brain tumor classification using digital histopathology and deep learning: evaluation of SOTA methods on a multi-center Swedish cohort
- 基于大模型提取切片特征,结合弱监督学习进行分类。
- 在瑞典多中心数据上达到最高0.76的分类准确率。
- 方法对不同医院数据泛化性好,适合临床辅助诊断场景。
儿童和青年中,脑肿瘤是最常见的实体瘤,但因大型病理数据集稀缺,计算病理学应用受限。本研究在来自瑞典六所大学医院的540例患儿(年龄8.5±4.9岁)的苏木精-伊红染色全切片图像(WSIs)上,采用三种预训练特征提取器(ResNet50、UNI、CONCH)获取切片块(patch)特征,并通过注意力机制多实例学习(ABMIL)或聚类约束注意力多实例学习(CLAM)进行患者级分类。评估了三类分级分类任务:肿瘤类别、家族和类型。模型在两个中心训练、四个中心测试时表现稳定,使用UNI特征与ABMIL组合达到最高性能:类别、家族、类型分类的马修相关系数分别为0.76±0.04、0.63±0.04、0.60±0.05。尽管不同特征提取器间性能差异存在,但在跨中心测试时性能下降程度相似,表明方法具备良好泛化能力。注意力映射验证了模型可解释性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children and young adults, but the scarcity of large histopathology datasets has limited the application of computational pathology in this group. This study implements two weakly supervised multiple-instance learning (MIL) approaches on patch-features obtained from state-of-the-art histology-specific foundation models to classify pediatric brain tumors in hematoxylin and eosin whole slide images (WSIs) from a multi-center Swedish cohort. WSIs from 540 subjects (age 8.5$\pm$4.9 years) diagnosed with brain tumor were gathered from the six Swedish university hospitals. Instance (patch)-level features were obtained from WSIs using three pre-trained feature extractors: ResNet50, UNI, and CONCH. Instances were aggregated using attention-based MIL (ABMIL) or clustering-constrained attention MIL (CLAM) for patient-level classification. Models were evaluated on three classification tasks based on the hierarchical classification of pediatric brain tumors: tumor category, family, and type. Model generalization was assessed by training on data from two of the centers and testing on data from four other centers. Model interpretability was evaluated through attention mapping. The highest classification performance was achieved using UNI features and ABMIL aggregation, with Matthew's correlation coefficient of 0.76$\pm$0.04, 0.63$\pm$0.04, and 0.60$\pm$0.05 for tumor category, family, and type classification, respectively. When evaluating generalization, models utilizing UNI and CONCH features outperformed those using ResNet50. However, the drop in performance from the in-site to out-of-site testing was similar across feature extractors. These results show the potential of state-of-the-art computational pathology methods in diagnosing pediatric brain tumors at different hierarchical levels with fair generalizability on a multi-center national dataset.
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