2 research outputs found
ACROBAT -- a multi-stain breast cancer histological whole-slide-image data set from routine diagnostics for computational pathology
The analysis of FFPE tissue sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin
(H&E) or immunohistochemistry (IHC) is an essential part of the pathologic
assessment of surgically resected breast cancer specimens. IHC staining has
been broadly adopted into diagnostic guidelines and routine workflows to
manually assess status and scoring of several established biomarkers, including
ER, PGR, HER2 and KI67. However, this is a task that can also be facilitated by
computational pathology image analysis methods. The research in computational
pathology has recently made numerous substantial advances, often based on
publicly available whole slide image (WSI) data sets. However, the field is
still considerably limited by the sparsity of public data sets. In particular,
there are no large, high quality publicly available data sets with WSIs of
matching IHC and H&E-stained tissue sections. Here, we publish the currently
largest publicly available data set of WSIs of tissue sections from surgical
resection specimens from female primary breast cancer patients with matched
WSIs of corresponding H&E and IHC-stained tissue, consisting of 4,212 WSIs from
1,153 patients. The primary purpose of the data set was to facilitate the
ACROBAT WSI registration challenge, aiming at accurately aligning H&E and IHC
images. For research in the area of image registration, automatic quantitative
feedback on registration algorithm performance remains available through the
ACROBAT challenge website, based on more than 37,000 manually annotated
landmark pairs from 13 annotators. Beyond registration, this data set has the
potential to enable many different avenues of computational pathology research,
including stain-guided learning, virtual staining, unsupervised pre-training,
artefact detection and stain-independent models
The ACROBAT 2022 Challenge: Automatic Registration Of Breast Cancer Tissue
The alignment of tissue between histopathological whole-slide-images (WSI) is
crucial for research and clinical applications. Advances in computing, deep
learning, and availability of large WSI datasets have revolutionised WSI
analysis. Therefore, the current state-of-the-art in WSI registration is
unclear. To address this, we conducted the ACROBAT challenge, based on the
largest WSI registration dataset to date, including 4,212 WSIs from 1,152
breast cancer patients. The challenge objective was to align WSIs of tissue
that was stained with routine diagnostic immunohistochemistry to its
H&E-stained counterpart. We compare the performance of eight WSI registration
algorithms, including an investigation of the impact of different WSI
properties and clinical covariates. We find that conceptually distinct WSI
registration methods can lead to highly accurate registration performances and
identify covariates that impact performances across methods. These results
establish the current state-of-the-art in WSI registration and guide
researchers in selecting and developing methods