Transfer learning for automatic cancer tissue detection using multispectral photoacoustic imaging

Kamal Jnawali; Bhargava Chinni; Vikram Dogra; Navalgund Rao

doi:10.1117/12.2506950

13 March 2019 Transfer learning for automatic cancer tissue detection using multispectral photoacoustic imaging

Kamal Jnawali, Bhargava Chinni, Vikram Dogra, Navalgund Rao

Proceedings Volume 10950, Medical Imaging 2019: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 109503W (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506950
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Pathology diagnosis is usually done by a human pathologist observing tissue stained glass slide under a microscope. In the case of multi-specimen study to locate cancer region, such as in thyroidectomy, significant labor-intensive processing is required at high cost. Multispectral photoacoustic (MPA) specimen imaging, has proven successful in differentiating photoacoustic (PA) signal characteristics between a histopathology defined cancer region and normal tissue. A more pragmatic research question to ask is, can MPA imaging data predict, whether a sectioned tissue slice has cancer region(s)? We propose to use inception-resnet-v2 convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on the thyroid MPA data to evaluate this potential by transfer learning. The proposed algorithm first extracts features from the thyroid MPA image data using CNN and then detects cancer using the softmax function, the last layer of the network. The AUCs (area under curve) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of cancer, benign nodule and normal are 0.73, 0.81, and 0.88 respectively with a limited number of the MPA dataset.

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Kamal Jnawali, Bhargava Chinni, Vikram Dogra, and Navalgund Rao "Transfer learning for automatic cancer tissue detection using multispectral photoacoustic imaging", Proc. SPIE 10950, Medical Imaging 2019: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 109503W (13 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506950

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