PySpatial加速病理全切片图像分析,提升处理速度10倍。
PySpatial: A High-Speed Whole Slide Image Pathomics Toolkit
- 直接在计算兴趣区处理,跳过碎片化步骤
- 小目标快10倍,大目标快2倍
- 适合大规模病理图像分析研究者
全切片图像(WSI)分析在现代数字病理学中至关重要,支持从组织样本中进行大规模特征提取。然而,传统基于CellProfiler等工具的特征提取流程通常涉及将WSI分割为补丁、在补丁级别提取特征,再映射回原始图像,过程冗长。为此,我们提出PySpatial,一个专为WSI级分析设计的高速病理组学工具包。PySpatial通过直接在计算兴趣区上操作,简化了传统流程,减少了重复处理步骤。利用rtree空间索引和矩阵计算,有效映射并处理计算区域,显著加快特征提取速度,同时保持高精度。我们在两个数据集——周围绕上上皮样细胞(PEC)和肾脏精准医学计划(KPMP)数据集——上的实验表明,性能大幅提升:在小而稀疏的目标(如PEC数据集)中,PySpatial相比标准CellProfiler流程实现近10倍加速;在较大目标(如KPMP中的肾小球和动脉)中,提速达2倍。这些结果凸显PySpatial在大规模WSI分析中提升效率与精度的潜力,为数字病理学广泛应用铺平道路。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis plays a crucial role in modern digital pathology, enabling large-scale feature extraction from tissue samples. However, traditional feature extraction pipelines based on tools like CellProfiler often involve lengthy workflows, requiring WSI segmentation into patches, feature extraction at the patch level, and subsequent mapping back to the original WSI. To address these challenges, we present PySpatial, a high-speed pathomics toolkit specifically designed for WSI-level analysis. PySpatial streamlines the conventional pipeline by directly operating on computational regions of interest, reducing redundant processing steps. Utilizing rtree-based spatial indexing and matrix-based computation, PySpatial efficiently maps and processes computational regions, significantly accelerating feature extraction while maintaining high accuracy. Our experiments on two datasets-Perivascular Epithelioid Cell (PEC) and data from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP)-demonstrate substantial performance improvements. For smaller and sparse objects in PEC datasets, PySpatial achieves nearly a 10-fold speedup compared to standard CellProfiler pipelines. For larger objects, such as glomeruli and arteries in KPMP datasets, PySpatial achieves a 2-fold speedup. These results highlight PySpatial's potential to handle large-scale WSI analysis with enhanced efficiency and accuracy, paving the way for broader applications in digital pathology.
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