Cross-Boosted Multi-Target Domain Adaptation for Multi-Modality Histopathology Image Translation and Segmentation

• Published in: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 3197 - 3208
• Main Authors: Zhang, Huaqi, Liu, Jie, Wang, Pengyu, Yu, Zekuan, Liu, Weifan, Chen, Huang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.07.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptation; bidirectional cross-domain boosting; Coders; Complementarity; Complementation; cross-frequency feature transfer; Datasets; Digital imaging; Domains; Feature extraction; Fluorescence; Fluorescence microscopy; Frequency modulation; Hafnium; Histopathology; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image processing; Image segmentation; Medical imaging; Modules; Multi-modality histopathology image; multi-target domain adaptation; Pipelines; Translation
• DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3153793
• ISSN: 2168-2194; 2168-2208

Recent digital pathology workflows mainly focus on mono-modality histopathology image analysis. However, they ignore the complementarity between Haematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) and Immunohistochemically (IHC) stained images, which can provide comprehensive gold standard for cancer diagnosis. To resolve this issue, we propose a cross-boosted multi-target domain adaptation pipeline for multi-modality histopathology images, which contains Cross-frequency Style-auxiliary Translation Network (CSTN) and Dual Cross-boosted Segmentation Network (DCSN). Firstly, CSTN achieves the one-to-many translation from fluorescence microscopy images to H&E and IHC images for providing source domain training data. To generate images with realistic color and texture, Cross-frequency Feature Transfer Module (CFTM) is developed to pertinently restructure and normalize high-frequency content and low-frequency style features from different domains. Then, DCSN fulfills multi-target domain adaptive segmentation, where a dual-branch encoder is introduced, and Bidirectional Cross-domain Boosting Module (BCBM) is designed to implement cross-modality information complementation through bidirectional inter-domain collaboration. Finally, we establish Multi-modality Thymus Histopathology (MThH) dataset, which is the largest publicly available H&E and IHC image benchmark. Experiments on MThH dataset and several public datasets show that the proposed pipeline outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both histopathology image translation and segmentation.