An Investigation into Glomeruli Detection in Kidney H E and PAS Images using YOLO
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Context: Analyzing digital pathology images is necessary to draw diagnostic conclusions by investigating tissue patterns and cellular morphology. However, manual evaluation can be time-consuming, expensive, and prone to inter- and intra-observer variability. Objective: To assist pathologists using computerized solutions, automated tissue structure detection and segmentation must be proposed. Furthermore, generating pixel-level object annotations for histopathology images is expensive and time-consuming. As a result, detection models with bounding box labels may be a feasible solution. Design: This paper studies. YOLO-v4 (You-Only-Look-Once), a real-time object detector for microscopic images. YOLO uses a single neural network to predict several bounding boxes and class probabilities for objects of interest. YOLO can enhance detection performance by training on whole slide images. YOLO-v4 has been used in this paper. for glomeruli detection in human kidney images. Multiple experiments have been designed and conducted based on different training data of two public datasets and a private dataset from the University of Michigan for fine-tuning the model. The model was tested on the private dataset from the University of Michigan, serving as an external validation of two different stains, namely hematoxylin and eosin (H E) and periodic acid-Schiff (PAS). Results: Average specificity and sensitivity for all experiments, and comparison of existing segmentation methods on the same datasets are discussed. Conclusions: Automated glomeruli detection in human kidney images is possible using modern AI models. The design and validation for different stains still depends on variability of public multi-stain datasets.
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