arXiv:2604.01798cs.CVcs.AI2026-04

用病理图像预测乳腺癌分型,准确率超95%,大幅减少检测成本。

A deep learning pipeline for PAM50 subtype classification using histopathology images and multi-objective patch selection

  • 通过多目标优化选关键切片,兼顾信息量与多样性。
  • 内测集F1达0.881,外测集AUC达0.951,性能优异。
  • 适合临床影像辅助诊断,可替代昂贵基因检测。

乳腺癌是分子特征高度异质的疾病,PAM50基因谱是其分型的标准方法,有助于个性化治疗。本研究提出一种基于深度学习的优化框架,直接从H&E染色全切片图像(WSIs)预测PAM50亚型,减少对昂贵分子检测的依赖。方法融合NSGA-II算法与蒙特卡洛丢弃法,联合优化切片信息量、空间多样性、不确定性及数量。采用ResNet18提取特征,定制CNN分类头。在内部TCGA-BRCA数据集(627张WSI)上,F1-score为0.8812,AUC为0.9841;外部CPTAC-BRCA验证集上,F1-score为0.7952,AUC为0.9512。结果表明,该方法在保证高精度的同时提升计算效率,具备临床推广潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease with diverse molecular profiles. The PAM50 gene signature is widely recognized as a standard for classifying breast cancer into intrinsic subtypes, enabling more personalized treatment strategies. In this study, we introduce a novel optimization-driven deep learning framework that aims to reduce reliance on costly molecular assays by directly predicting PAM50 subtypes from H&E-stained whole-slide images (WSIs). Our method jointly optimizes patch informativeness, spatial diversity, uncertainty, and patch count by combining the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) with Monte Carlo dropout-based uncertainty estimation. The proposed method can identify a small but highly informative patch subset for classification. We used a ResNet18 backbone for feature extraction and a custom CNN head for classification. For evaluation, we used the internal TCGA-BRCA dataset as the training cohort and the external CPTAC-BRCA dataset as the test cohort. On the internal dataset, an F1-score of 0.8812 and an AUC of 0.9841 using 627 WSIs from the TCGA-BRCA cohort were achieved. The performance of the proposed approach on the external validation dataset showed an F1-score of 0.7952 and an AUC of 0.9512. These findings indicate that the proposed optimization-guided, uncertainty-aware patch selection can achieve high performance and improve the computational efficiency of histopathology-based PAM50 classification compared to existing methods, suggesting a scalable imaging-based replacement that has the potential to support clinical decision-making.

病理图像乳腺癌深度学习分型

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