Histopathological Image Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Detection of Metastatic Breast Cancer in Lymph Nodes
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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v20i02.46789Keywords:
Histopathology, image classification, convolutional neural networks, breast cancerAbstract
Breast cancer is currently one of the most diagnosed oncological diseases worldwide, with thousands of new cases per year. Early detection and identifying its progression are key to overcoming the mortality rate. A recurrent test, to determine how far the disease has spread throughout the patient’s body, is the histological analysis of the sentinel lymph node near the breast. Although an expert pathologist performs this, it is usually an exhausting and time-consuming task, with a high possibility of error. This work presents a method to detect breast cancer metastasis through histological imaging of sentinel lymph nodes using convolutional neural networks. In this study, the performance of three models DenseNet-121, DenseNet-169 and DenseNet-201 are tested and compared. Experimental results indicated that the accuracy, precision, sensitivity and specificity (97.93%, 97.4%, 97.48% and 98.24%) of DenseNet-201 could reduce pathologist errors during the diagnostic process or serve as a second opinion tool.
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