journal article·2022Open access

Automated Grading of Breast Cancer Histopathology Images Using Multilayered Autoencoder

Shakra Mehak, M. Usman Ashraf, Rabia Zafar, Ahmed M. Alghamdi, Ahmed S. Alfakeeh, Fawaz Alassery, Habib Hamam, Muhammad Shafiq

Computers, Materials & Continua· Volume 71· Issue 2

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is the most widely recognized cancer in women worldwide. By 2018, 627,000 women had died of breast cancer (World Health Organization Report 2018). To diagnose BC, the evaluation of tumours is achieved by analysis of histological specimens. At present, the Nottingham Bloom Richardson framework is the least expensive approach used to grade BC aggressiveness. Pathologists contemplate three elements, 1. mitotic count, 2. gland formation, and 3. nuclear atypia, which is a laborious process that witness's variations in expert's opinions. Recently, some algorithms have been proposed for the detection of mitotic cells, but nuclear atypia in breast cancer histopathology has not received much consideration. Nuclear atypia analysis is performed not only to grade BC but also to provide critical information in the discrimination of normal breast, non-invasive breast (usual ductal hyperplasia, atypical ductal hyperplasia) and pre-invasive breast (ductal carcinoma in situ) and invasive breast lesions. We proposed a deep-stacked multi-layer autoencoder ensemble with a softmax layer for the feature extraction and classification process. The classification results show the value of the multi-layer autoencoder model in the evaluation of nuclear polymorphisms. The proposed method has indicated promising results, making them more fit in breast cancer grading.
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OpenAlex topics: AI in cancer detection · Digital Imaging for Blood Diseases · Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

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