Self-supervised learning of a tailored Convolutional Auto Encoder for histopathological prostate grading

03/21/2023
by   Zahra Tabatabaei, et al.
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According to GLOBOCAN 2020, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide and the fourth most prevalent cancer overall. For pathologists, grading prostate cancer is challenging, especially when discriminating between Grade 3 (G3) and Grade 4 (G4). This paper proposes a Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) framework to classify prostate histopathological images when labeled images are scarce. In particular, a tailored Convolutional Auto Encoder (CAE) is trained to reconstruct 128x128x3 patches of prostate cancer Whole Slide Images (WSIs) as a pretext task. The downstream task of the proposed SSL paradigm is the automatic grading of histopathological patches of prostate cancer. The presented framework reports promising results on the validation set, obtaining an overall accuracy of 83 achieving an overall accuracy value of 76

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