arXiv:2508.16209physics.med-phcs.CV2025-08被引 5

用AI从无染色组织图像生成多标记蛋白图,辅助甲状腺癌血管侵袭诊断。

Deep learning-enabled virtual multiplexed immunostaining of label-free tissue for vascular invasion assessment

  • 基于自荧光图像的深度学习模型,虚拟生成ERG、PanCK和H&E染色图。
  • 病理医生盲评显示虚拟染色与真实染色高度一致,可精准识别血管内皮和上皮细胞。
  • 无需实际染色,避免组织损耗,适合临床病理快速诊断场景。

免疫组化(IHC)通过可视化组织中特定蛋白改变了临床病理学,但传统IHC需每种抗体使用单独组织切片,存在切片间变异、成本高、操作繁琐等问题。尽管多重免疫组化(mIHC)可在单张切片上同时标记多种抗体,但操作复杂,尚未普及于常规病理实验室。本文提出一种基于深度学习的虚拟多重免疫组化框架,可同时生成ERG、PanCK及H&E虚拟染色图像,实现甲状腺癌血管侵袭的准确定位与解读。该方法基于无标记组织切片的自荧光显微图像,输出图像与真实组织切片的对应染色结果高度一致。经注册病理学家盲法评估,虚拟mIHC与真实染色结果高度吻合,准确标识了上皮细胞和内皮细胞。同一切片上的虚拟染色还可识别微小血管侵袭。此虚拟mIHC方法能显著提升病理诊断的准确性与效率,有望替代传统染色流程,缓解组织损耗与异质性问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) has transformed clinical pathology by enabling the visualization of specific proteins within tissue sections. However, traditional IHC requires one tissue section per stain, exhibits section-to-section variability, and incurs high costs and laborious staining procedures. While multiplexed IHC (mIHC) techniques enable simultaneous staining with multiple antibodies on a single slide, they are more tedious to perform and are currently unavailable in routine pathology laboratories. Here, we present a deep learning-based virtual multiplexed immunostaining framework to simultaneously generate ERG and PanCK, in addition to H&E virtual staining, enabling accurate localization and interpretation of vascular invasion in thyroid cancers. This virtual mIHC technique is based on the autofluorescence microscopy images of label-free tissue sections, and its output images closely match the histochemical staining counterparts (ERG, PanCK and H&E) of the same tissue sections. Blind evaluation by board-certified pathologists demonstrated that virtual mIHC staining achieved high concordance with the histochemical staining results, accurately highlighting epithelial cells and endothelial cells. Virtual mIHC conducted on the same tissue section also allowed the identification and localization of small vessel invasion. This multiplexed virtual IHC approach can significantly improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in the histopathological evaluation of vascular invasion, potentially eliminating the need for traditional staining protocols and mitigating issues related to tissue loss and heterogeneity.

虚拟染色AI病理甲状腺癌血管侵袭

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