arXiv:2411.06583eess.IVcs.AI2024-11被引 2

用永久切片指导,快速提升冷冻切片的核细节清晰度

Enhancing frozen histological section images using permanent-section-guided deep learning with nuclei attention

  • 以永久切片为引导,通过核分割注意力网络增强冷冻切片
  • 在肾、乳腺、结肠组织上实现秒级图像增强,核结构更清晰
  • 避免在空白区域生成假信息,适合临床病理快速诊断场景

在病理学中,冷冻切片可于数分钟内制备,常用于术中快速诊断,但常存在伪影且细胞核区域缺乏关键诊断细节。永久切片虽信息更丰富,但制备耗时。本文提出一种生成式深度学习方法,利用永久切片引导增强冷冻切片图像,重点强化细胞核区域——该区域在两类切片中均具关键诊断价值。方法通过引入核分割图像进行训练,并添加额外损失函数以细化生成图像中的核结构。特别地,该方法仅增强真实存在的特征,避免在空白区域生成不可靠信息。在肾、乳腺和结肠等多种组织上验证,可实现秒级图像增强,显著提升诊断准确率,并无缝集成至现有实验室流程。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In histological pathology, frozen sections are often used for rapid diagnosis during surgeries, as they can be produced within minutes. However, they suffer from artifacts and often lack crucial diagnostic details, particularly within the cell nuclei region. Permanent sections, on the other hand, contain more diagnostic detail but require a time-intensive preparation process. Here, we present a generative deep learning approach to enhance frozen section images by leveraging guidance from permanent sections. Our method places a strong emphasis on the nuclei region, which contains critical information in both frozen and permanent sections. Importantly, our approach avoids generating artificial data in blank regions, ensuring that the network only enhances existing features without introducing potentially unreliable information. We achieve this through a segmented attention network, incorporating nuclei-segmented images during training and adding an additional loss function to refine the nuclei details in the generated permanent images. We validated our method across various tissues, including kidney, breast, and colon. This approach significantly improves histological efficiency and diagnostic accuracy, enhancing frozen section images within seconds, and seamlessly integrating into existing laboratory workflows.

图像增强病理分析深度学习核分割

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