Evaluating deep learning-based melanoma classification using immunohistochemistry and routine histology: A three center study
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Abstract
Pathologists routinely use immunohistochemical (IHC)-stained tissue slides against MelanA in addition to hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained slides to improve their accuracy in diagnosing melanomas. The use of diagnostic Deep Learning (DL)-based support systems for automated examination of tissue morphology and cellular composition has been well studied in standard H&E-stained tissue slides. In contrast, there are few studies that analyze IHC slides using DL. Therefore, we investigated the separate and joint performance of ResNets trained on MelanA and corresponding H&E-stained slides. The MelanA classifier achieved an area under receiver operating characteristics curve (AUROC) of 0.82 and 0.74 on out of distribution (OOD)-datasets, similar to the H&E-based benchmark classification of 0.81 and 0.75, respectively. A combined classifier using MelanA and H&E achieved AUROCs of 0.85 and 0.81 on the OOD datasets. DL MelanA-based assistance systems show the same performance as the benchmark H&E classification and may be improved by multi stain classification to assist pathologists in their clinical routine.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | e0297146 |
Pages (from-to) | e0297146 |
Journal | PloS one |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMedCentral | PMC10798511 |
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Scopus | 85182868794 |
ORCID | /0000-0001-5703-324X/work/152543186 |
Mendeley | 8d53e3c7-d7a4-37d8-b1c7-20c99d867dca |
Keywords
Keywords
- Humans, Melanoma/diagnosis, Immunohistochemistry, Deep Learning, MART-1 Antigen, ROC Curve