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    LiverNet: efficient and robust deep learning model for automatic diagnosis of sub-types of liver hepatocellular carcinoma cancer from H&E stained liver histopathology images
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Aatresh, A.A.; Alabhya, K.; Lal, S.; Kini, J.; Saxena, P.P.
    Purpose: Liver cancer is one of the most common types of cancers in Asia with a high mortality rate. A common method for liver cancer diagnosis is the manual examination of histopathology images. Due to its laborious nature, we focus on alternate deep learning methods for automatic diagnosis, providing significant advantages over manual methods. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning framework to perform multi-class cancer classification of liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumor histopathology images which shows improvements in inference speed and classification quality over other competitive methods. Method: The BreastNet architecture proposed by Togacar et al. shows great promise in using convolutional block attention modules (CBAM) for effective cancer classification in H&E stained breast histopathology images. As part of our experiments with this framework, we have studied the addition of atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) blocks to effectively capture multi-scale features in H&E stained liver histopathology data. We classify liver histopathology data into four classes, namely the non-cancerous class, low sub-type liver HCC tumor, medium sub-type liver HCC tumor, and high sub-type liver HCC tumor. To prove the robustness and efficacy of our models, we have shown results for two liver histopathology datasets—a novel KMC dataset and the TCGA dataset. Results: Our proposed architecture outperforms state-of-the-art architectures for multi-class cancer classification of HCC histopathology images, not just in terms of quality of classification, but also in computational efficiency on the novel proposed KMC liver data and the publicly available TCGA-LIHC dataset. We have considered precision, recall, F1-score, intersection over union (IoU), accuracy, number of parameters, and FLOPs as metrics for comparison. The results of our meticulous experiments have shown improved classification performance along with added efficiency. LiverNet has been observed to outperform all other frameworks in all metrics under comparison with an approximate improvement of 2 % in accuracy and F1-score on the KMC and TCGA-LIHC datasets. Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, our work is among the first to provide concrete proof and demonstrate results for a successful deep learning architecture to handle multi-class HCC histopathology image classification among various sub-types of liver HCC tumor. Our method shows a high accuracy of 90.93 % on the proposed KMC liver dataset requiring only 0.5739 million parameters and 1.1934 million floating point operations per second. © 2021, CARS.
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    Efficient deep learning architecture with dimension-wise pyramid pooling for nuclei segmentation of histopathology images
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2021) Aatresh, A.A.; Yatgiri, R.P.; Chanchal, A.K.; Kumar, A.; Ravi, A.; Das, D.; Raghavendra, B.S.; Lal, S.; Kini, J.
    Image segmentation remains to be one of the most vital tasks in the area of computer vision and more so in the case of medical image processing. Image segmentation quality is the main metric that is often considered with memory and computation efficiency overlooked, limiting the use of power hungry models for practical use. In this paper, we propose a novel framework (Kidney-SegNet) that combines the effectiveness of an attention based encoder-decoder architecture with atrous spatial pyramid pooling with highly efficient dimension-wise convolutions. The segmentation results of the proposed Kidney-SegNet architecture have been shown to outperform existing state-of-the-art deep learning methods by evaluating them on two publicly available kidney and TNBC breast H&E stained histopathology image datasets. Further, our simulation experiments also reveal that the computational complexity and memory requirement of our proposed architecture is very efficient compared to existing deep learning state-of-the-art methods for the task of nuclei segmentation of H&E stained histopathology images. The source code of our implementation will be available at https://github.com/Aaatresh/Kidney-SegNet. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
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    High-resolution deep transferred ASPPU-Net for nuclei segmentation of histopathology images
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Chanchal, A.K.; Lal, S.; Kini, J.
    Purpose: Increasing cancer disease incidence worldwide has become a major public health issue. Manual histopathological analysis is a common diagnostic method for cancer detection. Due to the complex structure and wide variability in the texture of histopathology images, it has been challenging for pathologists to diagnose manually those images. Automatic segmentation of histopathology images to diagnose cancer disease is a continuous exploration field in recent times. Segmentation and analysis for diagnosis of histopathology images by using an efficient deep learning algorithm are the purpose of the proposed method. Method: To improve the segmentation performance, we proposed a deep learning framework that consists of a high-resolution encoder path, an atrous spatial pyramid pooling bottleneck module, and a powerful decoder. Compared to the benchmark segmentation models having a deep and thin path, our network is wide and deep that effectively leverages the strength of residual learning as well as encoder–decoder architecture. Results: We performed careful experimentation and analysis on three publically available datasets namely kidney dataset, Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) dataset, and MoNuSeg histopathology image dataset. We have used the two most preferred performance metrics called F1 score and aggregated Jaccard index (AJI) to evaluate the performance of the proposed model. The measured values of F1 score and AJI score are (0.9684, 0.9394), (0.8419, 0.7282), and (0.8344, 0.7169) on the kidney dataset, TNBC histopathology dataset, and MoNuSeg dataset, respectively. Conclusion