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Vahid Azimi1, Young Hwan Chang1, Guillaume Thibault1, Jaclyn Smith1, Takahiro Tsujikawa1, Benjamin Kukull1, Bradden Jensen1, Christopher Corless1, Adam Margolin1, Joe W Gray1.
Abstract
The translation of genomic sequencing technology to the clinic has greatly advanced personalized medicine. However, the presence of normal cells in tumors is a confounding factor in genome sequence analysis. Tumor purity, or the percentage of cancerous cells in whole tissue section, is a correction factor that can be used to improve the clinical utility of genomic sequencing. Currently, tumor purity is estimated visually by expert pathologists; however, it has been shown that there exist vast inter-observer discrepancies in tumor purity scoring. In this paper, we propose a quantitative image analysis pipeline for tumor purity estimation and provide a systematic comparison between pathologists' scores and our image-based tumor purity estimation.Entities:
Keywords: Histopathology; Quantitative Image Analysis
Year: 2017 PMID: 30364881 PMCID: PMC6198647 DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950717
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging ISSN: 1945-7928