Robust Histopathology Image Analysis: To Label or to Synthesize?

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Online) Vol. 2019; pp. 8525 - 8534
• Main Authors: Hou, Le, Agarwal, Ayush, Samaras, Dimitris, Kurc, Tahsin M., Gupta, Rajarsi R., Saltz, Joel H.
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Biological and Cell Microscopy; Grouping and Shape; Vision Applications and Systems; Medical; Segmentation

Detection, segmentation and classification of nuclei are fundamental analysis operations in digital pathology. Existing state-of-the-art approaches demand extensive amount of supervised training data from pathologists and may still perform poorly in images from unseen tissue types. We propose an uns...