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Oh K, Lee SE, Kim EK. 3-D breast nodule detection on automated breast ultrasound using faster region-based convolutional neural networks and U-Net. Sci Rep 2023; 13:22625. [PMID: 38114666 PMCID: PMC10730541 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49794-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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Mammography is currently the most commonly used modality for breast cancer screening. However, its sensitivity is relatively low in women with dense breasts. Dense breast tissues show a relatively high rate of interval cancers and are at high risk for developing breast cancer. As a supplemental screening tool, ultrasonography is a widely adopted imaging modality to standard mammography, especially for dense breasts. Lately, automated breast ultrasound imaging has gained attention due to its advantages over hand-held ultrasound imaging. However, automated breast ultrasound imaging requires considerable time and effort for reading because of the lengthy data. Hence, developing a computer-aided nodule detection system for automated breast ultrasound is invaluable and impactful practically. This study proposes a three-dimensional breast nodule detection system based on a simple two-dimensional deep-learning model exploiting automated breast ultrasound. Additionally, we provide several postprocessing steps to reduce false positives. In our experiments using the in-house automated breast ultrasound datasets, a sensitivity of [Formula: see text] with 8.6 false positives is achieved on unseen test data at best.
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- Kangrok Oh
- Research Institute of Radiological Science and Center for Clinical Imaging Data Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 363, Dongbaekjukjeon-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 16995, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 363, Dongbaekjukjeon-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 16995, Republic of Korea.
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De Ruvo S, Pio G, Vessio G, Volpe V. Forecasting and what-if analysis of new positive COVID-19 cases during the first three waves in Italy. Med Biol Eng Comput 2023:10.1007/s11517-023-02831-0. [PMID: 37316767 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-023-02831-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The joint exploitation of data related to epidemiological, mobility, and restriction aspects of COVID-19 with machine learning algorithms can support the development of predictive models that can be used to forecast new positive cases and study the impact of more or less severe restrictions. In this work, we integrate heterogeneous data from several sources and solve a multivariate time series forecasting task, specifically targeting the Italian case at both national and regional levels, during the first three waves of the pandemic. The goal is to build a robust predictive model to predict the number of new cases over a given time horizon so that any restrictive actions can be better planned. In addition, we perform a what-if analysis based on the best-identified predictive models to evaluate the impact of specific restrictions on the trend of positive cases. Our focus on the first three waves is motivated by the fact that it represents a typical emergency scenario (when no stable cure or vaccine is available) that may occur when a new pandemic spreads. Our experimental results prove that exploiting the considered heterogeneous data leads to accurate predictive models, reaching a WAPE of 5.75% at the national level. Furthermore, in the subsequent what-if analysis, we observed that strong all-in-one initiatives, such as total lockdowns, may not be adequate, while more specific and targeted solutions should be adopted. The developed models can help policy and decision-makers better plan intervention strategies and retrospectively analyze the effects of the decisions made at different scales. Joint exploitation of data on epidemiological, mobility, and restriction aspects of COVID-19 with machine learning algorithms to learn predictive models to forecast new positive cases.
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- Serena De Ruvo
- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
- Big Data Lab, National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI), Rome, Italy.
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- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Barbé L, Lam S, Holub A, Faghihmonzavi Z, Deng M, Iyer R, Finkbeiner S. AutoComet: A fully automated algorithm to quickly and accurately analyze comet assays. Redox Biol 2023; 62:102680. [PMID: 37001328 PMCID: PMC10090439 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023] Open
Abstract
DNA damage is a common cellular feature seen in cancer and neurodegenerative disease, but fast and accurate methods for quantifying DNA damage are lacking. Comet assays are a biochemical tool to measure DNA damage based on the migration of broken DNA strands towards a positive electrode, which creates a quantifiable 'tail' behind the cell. However, a major limitation of this approach is the time needed for analysis of comets in the images with available open-source algorithms. The requirement for manual curation and the laborious pre- and post-processing steps can take hours to days. To overcome these limitations, we developed AutoComet, a new open-source algorithm for comet analysis that utilizes automated comet segmentation and quantification of tail parameters. AutoComet first segments and filters comets based on size and intensity and then filters out comets without a well-connected head and tail, which significantly increases segmentation accuracy. Because AutoComet is fully automated, it minimizes curator bias and is scalable, decreasing analysis time over ten-fold, to less than 3 s per comet. AutoComet successfully detected statistically significant differences in tail parameters between cells with and without induced DNA damage, and was more comparable to the results of manual curation than other open-source software analysis programs. We conclude that the AutoComet algorithm provides a fast, unbiased and accurate method to quantify DNA damage that avoids the inherent limitations of manual curation and will significantly improve the ability to detect DNA damage.
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- Lise Barbé
- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA; Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
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Sun X, Yin D, Qin F, Yu H, Lu W, Yao F, He Q, Huang X, Yan Z, Wang P, Deng C, Liu N, Yang Y, Liang W, Wang R, Wang C, Yokoya N, Hänsch R, Fu K. Revealing influencing factors on global waste distribution via deep-learning based dumpsite detection from satellite imagery. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1444. [PMID: 36922495 PMCID: PMC10015540 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37136-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
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With the advancement of global civilisation, monitoring and managing dumpsites have become essential parts of environmental governance in various countries. Dumpsite locations are difficult to obtain in a timely manner by local government agencies and environmental groups. The World Bank shows that governments need to spend massive labour and economic costs to collect illegal dumpsites to implement management. Here we show that applying novel deep convolutional networks to high-resolution satellite images can provide an effective, efficient, and low-cost method to detect dumpsites. In sampled areas of 28 cities around the world, our model detects nearly 1000 dumpsites that appeared around 2021. This approach reduces the investigation time by more than 96.8% compared with the manual method. With this novel and powerful methodology, it is now capable of analysing the relationship between dumpsites and various social attributes on a global scale, temporally and spatially.
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- Xian Sun
- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart Cities, School of Information Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, 361005, Xiamen, China
- Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Big Data Applications in Governments, 350003, Fuzhou, China
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- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Tokyo, 103-0027, Japan
- Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan
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- German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234, Weßling, Germany
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- Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.
- School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.
- Key Laboratory of Network Information System Technology (NIST), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.
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Tan L, Li H, Yu J, Zhou H, Wang Z, Niu Z, Li J, Li Z. Colorectal cancer lymph node metastasis prediction with weakly supervised transformer-based multi-instance learning. Med Biol Eng Comput 2023; 61:1565-1580. [PMID: 36809427 PMCID: PMC10182132 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-023-02799-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
Abstract
Lymph node metastasis examined by the resected lymph nodes is considered one of the most important prognostic factors for colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it requires careful and comprehensive inspection by expert pathologists. To relieve the pathologists' burden and speed up the diagnostic process, in this paper, we develop a deep learning system with the binary positive/negative labels of the lymph nodes to solve the CRC lymph node classification task. The multi-instance learning (MIL) framework is adopted in our method to handle the whole slide images (WSIs) of gigapixels in size at once and get rid of the labor-intensive and time-consuming detailed annotations. First, a transformer-based MIL model, DT-DSMIL, is proposed in this paper based on the deformable transformer backbone and the dual-stream MIL (DSMIL) framework. The local-level image features are extracted and aggregated with the deformable transformer, and the global-level image features are obtained with the DSMIL aggregator. The final classification decision is made based on both the local and the global-level features. After the effectiveness of our proposed DT-DSMIL model is demonstrated by comparing its performance with its predecessors, a diagnostic system is developed to detect, crop, and finally identify the single lymph nodes within the slides based on the DT-DSMIL and the Faster R-CNN model. The developed diagnostic model is trained and tested on a clinically collected CRC lymph node metastasis dataset composed of 843 slides (864 metastasis lymph nodes and 1415 non-metastatic lymph nodes), achieving the accuracy of 95.3% and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.9762 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.9607-0.9891) for the single lymph node classification. As for the lymph nodes with micro-metastasis and macro-metastasis, our diagnostic system achieves the AUC of 0.9816 (95% CI: 0.9659-0.9935) and 0.9902 (95% CI: 0.9787-0.9983), respectively. Moreover, the system shows reliable diagnostic region localizing performance: the model can always identify the most likely metastases, no matter the model's predictions or manual labels, showing great potential in avoiding false negatives and discovering incorrectly labeled slides in actual clinical use.
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- Luxin Tan
- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, 100142, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, 100142, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data and Brain Computing, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.,School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.,Shenyuan Honors College, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data and Brain Computing, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.,College of Software, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Blot Info & Tech (Beijing) Co. Ltd, Beijing, China
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- Blot Info & Tech (Beijing) Co. Ltd, Beijing, China.
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data and Brain Computing, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China. .,School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, 100142, China.
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Anarossi E, Yanuaryska RD, Mulyana S. GamaComet: A Deep Learning-Based Tool for the Detection and Classification of DNA Damage from Buccal Mucosa Comet Assay Images. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:diagnostics12082002. [PMID: 36010352 PMCID: PMC9407097 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12082002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Comet assay is a simple and precise method to analyze DNA damage. Nowadays, many research studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of buccal mucosa cells usage in comet assays. However, several software tools do not perform well for detecting and classifying comets from a comet assay image of buccal mucosa cells because the cell has a lot more noise. Therefore, a specific software tool is required for fully automated comet detection and classification from buccal mucosa cell swabs. This research proposes a deep learning-based fully automated framework using Faster R-CNN to detect and classify comets in a comet assay image taken from buccal mucosa swab. To train the Faster R-CNN model, buccal mucosa samples were collected from 24 patients in Indonesia. We acquired 275 comet assay images containing 519 comets. Furthermore, two strategies were used to overcome the lack of dataset problems during the model training, namely transfer learning and data augmentation. We implemented the proposed Faster R-CNN model as a web-based tool, GamaComet, that can be accessed freely for academic purposes. To test the GamaComet, buccal mucosa samples were collected from seven patients in Indonesia. We acquired 43 comet assay images containing 73 comets. GamaComet can give an accuracy of 81.34% for the detection task and an accuracy of 66.67% for the classification task. Furthermore, we also compared the performance of GamaComet with an existing free software tool for comet detection, OpenComet. The experiment results showed that GamaComet performed significantly better than OpenComet that could only give an accuracy of 11.5% for the comet detection task. Downstream analysis can be well conducted based on the detection and classification results from GamaComet. The analysis showed that patients owning comet assay images containing comets with class 3 and class 4 had a smoking habit, meaning they had more cells with a high level of DNA damage. Although GamaComet had a good performance, the performance for the classification task could still be improved. Therefore, it will be one of the future works for the research development of GamaComet.
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- Edgar Anarossi
- Division of Information Science, Institute for Research Initiatives, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Department of Radiology Dentomaxillofacial, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
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- Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
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Liu Z, Huang D, Yang C, Shu J, Li J, Qin N. Efficient Axillary Lymph Node Detection Via Two-stage Spatial-information-fusion-based CNN. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 223:106953. [PMID: 35772232 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Preoperative imaging diagnosis of axillary lymph node (ALN) metastasis is particularly important for breast cancer patients. This paper focuses on developing non-invasive and automatic schemes for accurate localization and classification (metastasis prediction) of ALN via contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) image and deep learning models. METHODS Based on a two-stage strategy, a novel detection neural network is proposed, where the convolutional block attention module is utilized to extract spacial information and the bottleneck feature fusion module is designed for feature fusion in different scales. RESULTS Owing to the two embedded modules, the proposed convolutional neural network (CNN) model outperforms Faster R-CNN, YOLOv3, and EfficientDet in the sense that the achieved mAP is 0.454, higher than 0.247, 0.335, and 0.329, respectively. In particular, considering the function of classification only, the proposed model reaches the best performance on most indices (accuracy of 0.968, positive predictive value of 0.972, negative predictive value of 0.966, specificity of 0.983), compared with the methods that have been frequently adopted to predict ALN. In addition, the proposed CNN model has the function of locating ALN, which is lacking in existing models. CONCLUSIONS In this paper, a supervised deep learning method is proposed to detect ALN in CECT images. The positive effect of new added modules are verified, and the benefits of spatial information in ALN detection are confirmed. Further, the two subtasks called localization and classification are evaluated separately, where the proposed model achieves the best performance on most indices. The source code mentioned in this article will be released later.
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- Ziyi Liu
- Institute of Systems Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
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- Institute of Systems Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China
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- Institute of Systems Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
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- Institute of Systems Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China.
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Papaiz F, Dourado MET, Valentim RADM, de Morais AHF, Arrais JP. Machine Learning Solutions Applied to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Prognosis: A Review. FRONTIERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.869140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The prognosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a complex and rare disease, represents a challenging and essential task to better comprehend its progression and improve patients' quality of life. The use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques in healthcare has produced valuable contributions to the prognosis field. This article presents a systematic and critical review of primary studies that used ML applied to the ALS prognosis, searching for databases, relevant predictor biomarkers, the ML algorithms and techniques, and their outcomes. We focused on studies that analyzed biomarkers commonly present in the ALS disease clinical practice, such as demographic, clinical, laboratory, and imaging data. Hence, we investigate studies to provide an overview of solutions that can be applied to develop decision support systems and be used by a higher number of ALS clinical settings. The studies were retrieved from PubMed, Science Direct, IEEEXplore, and Web of Science databases. After completing the searching and screening process, 10 articles were selected to be analyzed and summarized. The studies evaluated and used different ML algorithms, techniques, datasets, sample sizes, biomarkers, and performance metrics. Based on the results, three distinct types of prediction were identified: Disease Progression, Survival Time, and Need for Support. The biomarkers identified as relevant in more than one study were the ALSFRS/ALSFRS-R, disease duration, Forced Vital Capacity, Body Mass Index, age at onset, and Creatinine. In general, the studies presented promissory results that can be applied in developing decision support systems. Besides, we discussed the open challenges, the limitations identified, and future research opportunities.
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Automated diagnosis of schistosomiasis by using faster R-CNN for egg detection in microscopy images prepared by the Kato–Katz technique. Neural Comput Appl 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-06924-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Fang Y, Dai M, Ye W, Li F, Sun H, Wei J, Li B. Damaging effects of TiO 2 nanoparticles on the ovarian cells of Bombyx mori. Biol Trace Elem Res 2022; 200:1883-1891. [PMID: 34115284 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-021-02760-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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As a new type of biologically compatible material, TiO2 NPs are widely used in the industry as additives, drug carriers, and components of skin care products. Due to their wide use, residual TiO2 NPs in the environment are a safety concern that has attracted extensive attention. In this study, the ovarian cell line BmN of the model organism Bombyx mori was used to reveal the damaging effects of TiO2 NPs exposure. The results demonstrated that TiO2 NPs exhibited a dose-dependent effect on the relative cell viability, with significant toxic effects being observed above 20 mg/L. Oxidative damage analysis showed that ROS accumulated significantly in BmN cells after exposure to TiO2 NPs (P ≤ 0.05) and induced DNA damage. Further analysis revealed that the transcriptional levels of key superoxide dismutase genes (SOD) decreased significantly, while the transcriptions of key genes of the MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway (P38, MEK, ERK and REL) and the downstream inflammatory factor genes (IL6 and TNFSF5) were all significantly up-regulated (P ≤ 0.05). Overall, our results indicate that exposure to TiO2 NPs leads to reduced transcription of antioxidant genes, accumulation of peroxides, and inflammation. These findings provide valuable data for the safety evaluation of environmental residues of TiO2 NPs.
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- Yilong Fang
- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
- Sericulture Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
- Sericulture Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
- Sericulture Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medicine and Biological Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China.
- Sericulture Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People's Republic of China.
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Fiorentino MC, Moccia S, Capparuccini M, Giamberini S, Frontoni E. A regression framework to head-circumference delineation from US fetal images. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2021; 198:105771. [PMID: 33049451 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Measuring head-circumference (HC) length from ultrasound (US) images is a crucial clinical task to assess fetus growth. To lower intra- and inter-operator variability in HC length measuring, several computer-assisted solutions have been proposed in the years. Recently, a large number of deep-learning approaches is addressing the problem of HC delineation through the segmentation of the whole fetal head via convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Since the task is a edge-delineation problem, we propose a different strategy based on regression CNNs. METHODS The proposed framework consists of a region-proposal CNN for head localization and centering, and a regression CNN for accurately delineate the HC. The first CNN is trained exploiting transfer learning, while we propose a training strategy for the regression CNN based on distance fields. RESULTS The framework was tested on the HC18 Challenge dataset, which consists of 999 training and 335 testing images. A mean absolute difference of 1.90 ( ± 1.76) mm and a Dice similarity coefficient of 97.75 ( ± 1.32) % were achieved, overcoming approaches in the literature. CONCLUSIONS The experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed framework, proving its potential in supporting clinicians during the clinical practice.
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- Maria Chiara Fiorentino
- Department of Information Engineering, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 12, Ancona 60131, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 12, Ancona 60131, Italy; Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego, 30, Genova 16163, Italy.
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- Department of Information Engineering, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 12, Ancona 60131, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 12, Ancona 60131, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 12, Ancona 60131, Italy
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Fabric defect detection is very important in the textile quality process. Current deep learning algorithms are not effective in detecting tiny and extreme aspect ratio fabric defects. In this paper, we proposed a strong detection method, Priori Anchor Convolutional Neural Network (PRAN-Net), for fabric defect detection to improve the detection and location accuracy of fabric defects and decrease the inspection time. First, we used Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) by selected multi-scale feature maps to reserve more detailed information of tiny defects. Secondly, we proposed a trick to generate sparse priori anchors based on fabric defects ground truth boxes instead of fixed anchors to locate extreme defects more accurately and efficiently. Finally, a classification network is used to classify and refine the position of the fabric defects. The method was validated on two self-made fabric datasets. Experimental results indicate that our method significantly improved the accuracy and efficiency of detecting fabric defects and is more suitable to the automatic fabric defect detection.
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ACDC: Automated Cell Detection and Counting for Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020; 10. [PMID: 34306736 PMCID: PMC8297459 DOI: 10.3390/app10186187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Advances in microscopy imaging technologies have enabled the visualization of live-cell dynamic processes using time-lapse microscopy imaging. However, modern methods exhibit several limitations related to the training phases and to time constraints, hindering their application in the laboratory practice. In this work, we present a novel method, named Automated Cell Detection and Counting (ACDC), designed for activity detection of fluorescent labeled cell nuclei in time-lapse microscopy. ACDC overcomes the limitations of the literature methods, by first applying bilateral filtering on the original image to smooth the input cell images while preserving edge sharpness, and then by exploiting the watershed transform and morphological filtering. Moreover, ACDC represents a feasible solution for the laboratory practice, as it can leverage multi-core architectures in computer clusters to efficiently handle large-scale imaging datasets. Indeed, our Parent-Workers implementation of ACDC allows to obtain up to a 3.7× speed-up compared to the sequential counterpart. ACDC was tested on two distinct cell imaging datasets to assess its accuracy and effectiveness on images with different characteristics. We achieved an accurate cell-count and nuclei segmentation without relying on large-scale annotated datasets, a result confirmed by the average Dice Similarity Coefficients of 76.84 and 88.64 and the Pearson coefficients of 0.99 and 0.96, calculated against the manual cell counting, on the two tested datasets.
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Jinnai S, Yamazaki N, Hirano Y, Sugawara Y, Ohe Y, Hamamoto R. The Development of a Skin Cancer Classification System for Pigmented Skin Lesions Using Deep Learning. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10081123. [PMID: 32751349 PMCID: PMC7465007 DOI: 10.3390/biom10081123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Revised: 07/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify images of melanoma, with accuracies comparable to those achieved by dermatologists. However, the performance of a CNN trained with only clinical images of a pigmented skin lesion in a clinical image classification task, in competition with dermatologists, has not been reported to date. In this study, we extracted 5846 clinical images of pigmented skin lesions from 3551 patients. Pigmented skin lesions included malignant tumors (malignant melanoma and basal cell carcinoma) and benign tumors (nevus, seborrhoeic keratosis, senile lentigo, and hematoma/hemangioma). We created the test dataset by randomly selecting 666 patients out of them and picking one image per patient, and created the training dataset by giving bounding-box annotations to the rest of the images (4732 images, 2885 patients). Subsequently, we trained a faster, region-based CNN (FRCNN) with the training dataset and checked the performance of the model on the test dataset. In addition, ten board-certified dermatologists (BCDs) and ten dermatologic trainees (TRNs) took the same tests, and we compared their diagnostic accuracy with FRCNN. For six-class classification, the accuracy of FRCNN was 86.2%, and that of the BCDs and TRNs was 79.5% (p = 0.0081) and 75.1% (p < 0.00001), respectively. For two-class classification (benign or malignant), the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were 91.5%, 83.3%, and 94.5% by FRCNN; 86.6%, 86.3%, and 86.6% by BCD; and 85.3%, 83.5%, and 85.9% by TRN, respectively. False positive rates and positive predictive values were 5.5% and 84.7% by FRCNN, 13.4% and 70.5% by BCD, and 14.1% and 68.5% by TRN, respectively. We compared the classification performance of FRCNN with 20 dermatologists. As a result, the classification accuracy of FRCNN was better than that of the dermatologists. In the future, we plan to implement this system in society and have it used by the general public, in order to improve the prognosis of skin cancer.
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- Shunichi Jinnai
- Department of Dermatologic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan;
- Correspondence: (S.J.); (R.H.)
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- Department of Dermatologic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan;
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- Preferred Networks, 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan; (Y.H.); (Y.S.)
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- Preferred Networks, 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan; (Y.H.); (Y.S.)
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan;
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- Division of Molecular Modification and Cancer Biology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
- Cancer Translational Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, 1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
- Correspondence: (S.J.); (R.H.)
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